Francesco Petrarch, Selections from his Correspondences

Francis Petrarch
Selections from his Correspondences
from
James Harvey Robinson, ed. and trans.
Francesco Petrarca: 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.

Selection 1 - Francesco Petrarch to Posterity
Selection 2 - Petrarch's Preface to his First Collection of Letters
Selection 3 - Petrarch's Passion for Work - The Trials of a Man of Letters
Selection 4 - The Visit to the Goldsmith at Bergamo
Selection 5 - Petrarch Disclaims all Jealousy of Dante
Selection 6 - The Story of Griselda
Selection 7 - On the Italian Language and Literature
Selection 8 - His Aversion to Logicians
Selection 9 - To Marcus Tullius Cicero (1 of 2)
Selection 10 - The Old Grammarian of Vicenza
Selection 11 - To Marcus Tullius Cicero (2 of 2)
Selection 12 - To Homer
Selection 13 - On the Nature of Poetry
Selection 14 - On the Scarcity of Copyists
Selection 15 - The Young Humanist of Ravenna
Selection 16 - An Excursion to Paris, the Netherlands, and the Rhine
Selection 17 - The Ascent of Mount Ventoux
Selection 18 - Ignorance and Presumption Rebuked

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