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Petrarch: The First Modern Scholar

by Francesco Petrarca

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  1. 1Dedication — Preface to the Second Edition
  2. 2Prefatory Note to the First Edition
  3. 3Illustrations
  4. 4Introductory
  5. 5I — Biographical — Francesco Petrarca to Posterity
  6. 6Petrarch’s Preface to His First Collection of Letters
  7. 7II — Petrarch and His Literary Contemporaries
  8. 8Petrarch’s Passion for Work — The Trials of a Man of Letters
  9. 9The Visit to the Goldsmith at Bergamo
  10. 10Petrarch Disclaims All Jealousy of Dante
  11. 11The Story of Griselda
  12. 12On the Italian Language and Literature
  13. 13His Aversion to Logicians
  14. 14III — The Father of Humanism
  15. 15To Marcus Tullius Cicero
  16. 16The Old Grammarian of Vicenza
  17. 17On the Nature of Poetry
  18. 18On the Scarcity of Copyists
  19. 19Ignorance and Presumption Rebuked
  20. 20The Young Humanist of Ravenna
  21. 21IV — Travels
  22. 22An Excursion to Paris, the Netherlands, and the Rhine
  23. 23The Ascent of Mount Ventoux
  24. 24The Charms of Pavia
  25. 25V — Political Opinions
  26. 26VI — The Conflict of Monastic and Secular Ideals
  27. 27VII — Petrarch’s Confessions
  28. 28VIII — Finale
  29. 29Petrarch’s Intention to Work Until the Last

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