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Petrarch, the First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters

English translation · Translated by James Harvey Robinson and Henry Winchester Rolfe

by Francesco Petrarca

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Petrarch's letters to Boccaccio and other friends are selected here to show the start of the Renaissance, as seen by one man who knew almost everyone worth knowing in his day. James Harvey Robinson of Columbia University translated them from the Latin with Henry Winchester Rolfe, adding historical introductions and notes.

The second edition, from Putnam in 1914, rewrites the opening of the introductory chapter and adds an analysis of Petrarch's Secret, a work of self-examination.

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Francesco Petrarca

Francesco Petrarca, commonly known in English as Petrarch, was a fourteenth-century Italian poet and scholar whose lyric verse helped establish the form later called the Petrarchan sonnet. Fifteen Sonnets of Petrarch presents a small bilingual selection from that tradition, with Italian and English arranged on facing pages.

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