Petrarch's Letters to Classical Authors

This version of Petrarch's Letters to Classical Authors is a 1910 edition with an introduction.

It is hardly necessary to dwell upon Petrarch's extensive correspondence. He was the leader of the learned men of his age, and all his prominent contemporaries whether in the political world, or in the religious world, or in the scholarly world were numbered among his friends. Corresponding so incessantly with all men and on all topics, Petrarch's letters soon grew into an unmanageable mass.

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