Petrarch, the First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters / A Selection from His Correspondence with Boccaccio and Other Friends, Designed to Illustrate the Beginnings of the Renaissance

by Francesco Petrarca

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Contents

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

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