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

[35] De Vulgari Eloquio, lib. i., cap. 13

[36] See Sen., xv., 1 (Opera, 946).

[37] Fam., iv., 16 (vol. i., p. 246).

[38] Sen., xv., I (Opera, 947).

[39] Fam., ix., 5 (toward the end). Cf. Körting, op. cit., 99 sqq.

[40] See Pastor, Geschichte der Päpste, vol. i., p. 3, n. 1, who asserts that "officium quotidianum celebrare," in De Otio Religiosorum, does not refer to the celebration of the mass, as previous writers inferred.

[41] Nos autem cui mundus est patria, velut piscibus æquor.—De Vulgari Eloquio, lib. i., cap. 6.

[42] Described by M. Faucon, in the Bibliothèque des Écoles Françaises d'Athènes et de Rome, Fas. 43, 50.

[43] Ep. sine Titulo, No. 7; also Sen., x., 2.

[44] See the facsimile of this famous entry in Geiger's Humanismus, p. 44, and the corrected transcription furnished by M. de Nolhac, op. cit., pp. 407, 408.