THE ATHENAEUMPetrarch, the First Modern Scholar and Man of LettersFrancesco Petrarca
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Petrarch, the First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textA selection of Petrarch’s letters, put into English by James Harvey Robinson and Henry Winchester Rolfe in 1898. Among them is the letter in which he tells how he climbed Mont Ventoux in Provence with his brother Gherardo in 1336, for no other reason than to see the view from the top. At the summit he opened Augustine’s Confessions at random and read a rebuke to men who go to wonder at the heights of mountains and neglect themselves.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 7 hr 40 min
- Where to find it
- The Mountain in the Painting
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #48776. In the public domain in the United States.