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

[63] Petrarch confesses that he owed the crown to Robert. Ecl., x., 370 sqq.

[64] Fam., iv., 3 (the opening lines).

[65] Fam., iv., 2 (vol. i., p. 206).

[66] Recolo ... in hoc ipso capitolio romano ubi nunc insistimus tot tantosque vates ad culmen preclari magisterii provectos emeritam lauream reportasse ... post statium pampineum illustrem poetam qui domitiani temporibus floruit nullum legimus tali honore decoratum.—Hortis, Scritti Inediti, p. 316.

[67] Rerum Mem., end of book i.; an interesting estimate of Robert.

[68] Ep. Poet. Lat., ii., 1.

[69] Cf. Hortis, op. cit., chap, i., "La Laurea del Petrarca."

[70] Ibid., 311 sqq.

[71] Georgics, iii., 291, 292, as translated by Rhoades.

[72] Op. cit., p. 174. Cf. Gregorovius, Geschichte der Stadt Rom., vi., pp. 207 sqq.