[12] The wretchedly printed, editions published at Basle in 1554 and 1581 are the most complete, but they omit the work on Famous Men and nearly half of the letters.
[13] As first (and last) Englished by Thomas Twyne, London, 1579.
[14] This is a part of the Lives of Famous Men, but is nearly as long as all the others together.
[15] Cf. Ferrazzi, "Bibliografia Petrarchesca," in vol. v. of his Enciclopedia Dantesca, Bassano, 1877.
[16] E. g., Book i., chap, xliii.: on the possession of a library.
[17] Conradini has edited the work in Padova a Petrarca, 1874, and there are now two Italian versions and one in French.
[18] Edited by A. Razzolini, Bologna, 1874-9, in Collezione di Opere Inedite o Rare. Vols. 34-36. The Life of Cæsar was carefully edited by Schneider (Leipzig, 1827), with a discussion of Petrarch's divergences from classical Latin.
[19] For this whole subject see Ferrazzi, op. cit., especially p. 760. An excellent analysis of the Latin works may be found in Körting, Petrarca's Leben u. Werke, Leipzig, 1878, pp. 542 sqq.
[20] De Rem. Utriusq. Fortunæ, i., 43; Opera (1581), p. 43.
[21] Rerum Mem., i., 2, as corrected by M. de Nolhac: Pétrarque et l'Humanisme, p. 268.