“ You will perhaps have heard something of me ; though who can tell whether so trivial and obscure a name as mine will have penetrated to remote places and distant times ? But if so, you may desire to ...

On Francesco Petrarch’s love, hate, and precision of feeling. The outer restlessness of his migratory life found its analogue in an inner turbulence which allowed him little of the peace he sought. It ...

Of the seven legitimate sons of Stefano, we are chiefly concerned in this place with the two who were Petrarch’s best and most powerful friends at Avignon, and through whom he was introduced to the ...