Petrarch
by Francesco Petrarca
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About this eBook
- Author
- Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374
- Title
- 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
- Credits
- Produced by Annemie Arnst, Madeleine Fournier and Marc D'Hooghe (Images generously made available by the Internet Archive.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
- Subject
- Authors, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Italy -- Correspondence
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 48776
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48776
- Release Date
- April 24, 2015
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Petrarch — The First Modern Scholar — and Man of Letters — BY
- 2.JAMES HARVEY ROBINSON — Professor of History in Columbia University — WITH THE COLLABORATION OF — HENRY WINCHESTER ROLFE — Sometime Professor of Latin in Swarthmore College — SECOND EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED — PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION — PREFATORY NOTE TO THE FIRST EDITION — CONTENTS — ILLUSTRATIONS — INTRODUCTORY — I. — BIOGRAPHICAL — Francesco Petrarca to Posterity . — Petrarch's Preface to his First Collection of Letters — II — PETRARCH AND HIS LITERARY CONTEMPORARIES — 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 — III — THE FATHER OF HUMANISM — To Marcus Tullius Cicero [1] — The Old Grammarian of Vicenza, — On the Nature of Poetry. — On the Scarcity of Copyists. — Ignorance and Presumption Rebuked. — The Young Humanist of Ravenna. — IV — TRAVELS — An Excursion to Paris, the Netherlands, and the Rhine. — The Ascent of Mount Ventoux. — The Charms of Pavia. — V — POLITICAL OPINIONS — RIENZO AND CHARLES IV — VI — THE CONFLICT OF MONASTIC AND SECULAR IDEALS — VII — PETRARCH'S CONFESSIONS — VIII — FINALE — Petrarch's Intention to Work until the Last.
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