Francis Petrarch
Familiar Letters
From James Harvey Robinson, ed. and trans.
Petrarch: The First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters
(New York: G.P. Putnam, 1898)

Hanover Historical Texts Project
Scanned by Jason Boley and Jacob Miller in August, 1995.
Proofread by Monica Banas, Stephanie Hammett, and Heather Haralson in April, 1996.
Proofread and pages inserted by Faisal Shahid, December 2000.



To Posterity

To Socrates: Preface to his First Collection of Letters

To the Abbot of St. Benigno: Petrarch's Passion for Work - The Trials of a Man of Letters

The Visit to the Goldsmith at Bergamo

Petrarch Disclaims all Jealousy of Dante

The Story of Griselda

On the Italian Language and Literature

His Aversion to Logicians

To Marcus Tullius Cicero (1 of 2)

The Old Grammarian of Vicenza

To Marcus Tullius Cicero (2 of 2)

To Homer

On the Nature of Poetry

On the Scarcity of Copyists

The Young Humanist of Ravenna

An Excursion to Paris, the Netherlands, and the Rhine

The Ascent of Mount Ventoux

Ignorance and Presumption Rebuked

The Charms of Pavia(in progress)

To Cola di Rienzo(in progress)

Rienzo under the Protection of the Muses(in progress)

To the Roman People, urging them to Intervene in Rienzo's Trial(in progress)

To Charles IV, Emperor August of the Romans(in progress)

Familiar Letters  - His Audience with the Emperor(in progress)

Religion does not Require us to Give up Literature(in progress)

On a Religious Life(in progress)

On the Impossibility of Acquiring Fame during one's Lifetime(in progress)

Petrarch's Intention to Work until the Last(in progress)




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