Petrarch's Letters to Classical Authors

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. It is hardly necessary to dwell upon Petrarch's extensive correspondence. He was the leader of the learned men of his age; and it is common knowledge that all his prominent contempo raries - whether in the political world, or in the religious world, or in the scholarly world were numbered among his friends.