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Petrarch
The First Modern Scholar
and Man of Letters
BY
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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