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

[42] Fam., xx., 6 (vol. iii., p. 25).

[43] Perhaps with a hope that simple notes would escape the fate of his more polished missives.

[44] Opera (1581), p. 546 sq.

[45] M. Victor Develay has turned a part of the correspondence into French, with conscientious fidelity to the original.

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BIOGRAPHICAL

Vestro de grege unus fui autem, mortalis homuncio.
Epistola ad Posteros.