Petrarch, the First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters / A Selection from His Correspondence with Boccaccio and Other Friends, Designed to Illustrate the Beginnings of the Renaissance

by Francesco Petrarca

[3] See above, p. [87] sqq.

[4] The same idea is expressed in the canzone beginning, Perchè la vita.

[5] I.e. Simone Memrai. Cf. sonnet Per mirar.

[6] See above, page [96], for reflections on Petrarch's attitude in this matter.

[7] The original words of this paragraph are given above, p. [412].

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