[39] These were formerly attributed to Petrarch, and are printed in the Venetian edition of his letters (1503). See Fracassetti, Let. delle Cos. Fam., ii., 439 sqq.
[40] In the Epistolarium de Coluccio Salutati, edited by Novati, vol. i.
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PETRARCH AND HIS LITERARY CONTEMPORARIES
Quotidie epistolas, quotidie carmina omnis in caput hoc nostri orbis angulus pluit;... jam nec Gallis modo, sed Graiis et Teutonis et Britannis tempestatibus litterarum pulsor, omnium ingeniorum arbiter, mei ipsius ignarus.—Fam., xiii., 7.