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

[22] Cf. de Nolhac, op. cit., p. 99.

[23] Sen., v., 1; Opera (1581), p. 792. Compare, on the general subject, G. H. Putnam's Books and their Makers in the Middle Ages, New York, 1896.

[24] Epistolæ de Rebus Familiaribus, xvi., 1 (Fracassetti's edition, vol. ii., p. 363).

[25] The Latin original, transcribed from the archives of Venice, is to be found in de Nolhac, op. cit., p. 80.

[26] Petrarcha Redivivus, 2d ed. (Padua, 1650), p. 72.

[27] Cf. Fam., xxiv., 1 (vol. iii., p. 250).

[28] Fam., iv., 15.

[29] Il Convito, iv., 16. For the conceptions of grammar in the thirteenth century see Turot's remarkable study in the Notices et Extraits des MSS., vol. 22.

[30] Migne, Patrologia Lat., vol. 82, pp. 408, 426.

[31] "De Sui ipsius et Multorum Ignorantia," Opera (1581), pp. 1042, 1043.