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

[53] For Petrarch's views of marriage see Fam., xxii., 1, as well as several unworthy dialogues in De Remediis Utriusque Fortunæ, e. g., i., 45-47; ii., 18, 20, 22.

[54] Cogita quantum professio tua discordet a moribus.—Opera, p. 363.

[55] Magnæ corporis magnæ animi vires sunt, quæ simul et litteris sufficiant et uxori.—Fam., xx., 4 (vol. iii., p. 21).

[56] Two or three examples of such descriptions will be found below, [Part. IV.]

[57] See his enthusiastic letter to Giacomo Colonna, who had invited him to undertake the journey.—Fam., ii., 9.

[58] Convito, iv., 5.

[59] Convito, iv., 5.

[60] See below, [Part V].

[61] All authorities agree as to the fearful degradation of Rome during the absence of the popes.

[62] Fam., ii., 14.