Letters on Familiar Matters

Author

Petrarch

Original Work

Letters on Familiar Matters

Translator

Aldo S. Bernardo

Language

English

Year

2005

Publisher

Italica Press

Country

United States

Pages

374

ISBN

9781599100029

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MAKES AVAILABLE to English-speaking readers Petrarch’s earliest and perhaps most important collection of prose letters in an elegant and affordable paperback edition . Petrarch was the consummate artist,whether in writing poetry, or being crowned poet laureate, or in confessing his faults, describing the dissolution of the kingdom of Naples, summoning up the grandeur of ancient Rome, or in writing to pope or emperor. He was always conscious that his private life and thoughts were the object of high art and public interest . Translated by Aldo S. Bernardo. Books XVII–XXIV. Introduction, notes, bibliography. Petrarch, Francesco LFM 4 Letters on Familiar Matters vols. 1-3 MAKES AVAILABLE to English-speaking readers Petrarch’s earliest and perhaps most important collection of prose letters in an elegant and affordable paperback edition . Petrarch was the consummate artist,whether in writing poetry, or being crowned poet laureate, or in confessing his faults, describing the dissolution of the kingdom of Naples, summoning up the grandeur of ancient Rome, or in writing to pope or emperor. He was always conscious that his private life and thoughts were the object of high art and public interest . Translated by Aldo S. Bernardo. 1: Books I–VIII. 472 pp. 2: Books IX–XVI. 352 pp. 3: Books XVII–XXIV. 374 pp.— Google Books