Petrarch's Secret; or, the Soul's Conflict with Passion / Three Dialogues Between Himself and S. Augustine

by Francesco Petrarca

[21] De Senectute, xi.

[22] Horace, Epist. i. 2, 62-3.

[23] Petrarch refers to a Calabrian monk who had begun giving him lessons in Greek, but left him on being appointed to a bishopric.

[24] Tusculan Orations, i. 21.

[25] Wisdom, viii. 21.

[26] Cor. xii. 9.

[27] Confessions, viii. 7.

[28] Æneid, ii. 361-9.

[29] Æneid, ii. 622.

[30] Horace, Odes, xi. 10, 6-8.