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De vita solitaria ("Of Solitary Life" or "On the Solitary Life"; translated as The Life of Solitude) is a philosophical treatise composed in Latin and written between 1346 and 1356 (mainly in Lent of 1346) by Italian Renaissance humanist Petrarch. It constitutes an apology of solitude dedicated to his friend Philippe de Cabassoles. [1] [2]
In among these letters in 1346 Petrarch writes what is called De vita solitaria, a treatise composed of two books and dedicated to Philippe de Cabassoles. [12] In Book XXII of Familiar Letters is Petrarch's books of these letters to Philippe which he delivered 20 years after he wrote them.
Petrarch used it in De vita solitaria (1346) and established it in the mainstream of Renaissance humanism as a figure of the choice between a contemplative life and an active life. Petrarch had read Cicero's summary of the story in De Officiis. Like Xenophon, Cicero stresses the hero's solitude as he deliberates with himself.
In 1346, Petrarch declared in his De vita solitaria that Celestine's refusal was a virtuous example of solitary life. [34] Pope Celestine V is referenced in Chapter 88 of Dan Brown's Angels & Demons, where he is controversially referenced as an example of a murdered pope. Brown writes that an X-ray of his tomb "revealed a ten-inch nail driven ...
According to oral [1] and literary sources, in the fourth century, where the church and its farm are now located, there was a villa [2] belonging to the Bishop of Milan, Ambrose.
The dark allegories suggested by the verses are in part explained in the letter that Boccaccio sent Martino da Signa (Ep. XXIII), which some manuscripts give in front of the collection of poems, by way of introduction.
Ser Petracco (born Pietro di Parenzo di Garzo; 1267–1326) was the father to the Italian poet Francesco Petrarca. [1] His father was Ser Parenzo, son of Ser Garzo who reputedly lived to be 100.
Venice: J. and G. de Gregorius, 1492 Epistolae familiares is the title of a collection of letters of Petrarch which he edited during his lifetime. He originally called the collection Epistolarum mearum ad diversos liber ( "a book of my letters to different people" ) but this was later shortened to the current title.