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Petrarch was a prolific letter writer and counted Boccaccio among the notable friends with whom he regularly corresponded. After the death of their parents, Petrarch and his brother Gherardo went back to Avignon in 1326, where he worked in numerous clerical offices. This work gave him much time to devote to his writing.
Secretum (De secreto conflictu curarum mearum, translated as The Secret or My Secret Book) is a trilogy of dialogues in Latin written by Petrarch sometime from 1342 to 1353, [1] in which he examines his faith with the help of Saint Augustine, and "in the presence of The Lady Truth". [2]
In the first chapter, Petrarch discusses two types of people. One is the city dweller who awakens in the middle of the night thinking of his clients with falsehoods. He thinks how he may be able to drive a corrupt bargain with ill-gotten profit gains or betraying his friends or his seductions for his neighbor's wife to tempt her away from her ...
Petrarch's implication that he was the first to climb mountains for pleasure, [10] and Burckhardt's insistence on Petrarch's sensitivity to nature have been often repeated since. [11] There are also numerous references to Petrarch as an "alpinist",. [12] However Mont Ventoux is not a hard climb, and is not usually considered part of the Alps. [13]
Both Liber I and Liber II of Petrarch's De Viris Illustribus in Latin only is located at Bibliotecaitaliana.it. Smith, William; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, Ancientlibrary.com, "Logbasis", Boston, (1867) Kirkham, Victoria, Petrarch: a critical guide to the complete works, University of Chicago, 2009, ISBN 0-226-43741-8
Family quotes from famous people. 11. “In America, there are two classes of travel—first class and with children.” —Robert Benchley (July 1934) 12. “There is no such thing as fun for the ...
Petrarch wrote and revised his famous sequence Canzoniere, or Song Book, between the years of 1327 and 1374. It comprises 366 poems divided into two parts: 1–263 and 264–366. Petrarch gradually constructed this work, which is derived from the countless drafts and revisions that he made throughout its creation.
Triumphs (Italian: I Trionfi) is a 14th-century Italian series of poems, written by Petrarch in the Tuscan language.The poem evokes the Roman ceremony of triumph, where victorious generals and their armies were led in procession by the captives and spoils they had taken in war.