On Religious Leisure

THIS FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION faithfully and elegantly presents Petrarch’s exordium to the life of contemplation and offers the reader a fresh view into the spiritual world of fourteenth-century humanism . Thebodyof the work(De otio religioso) was composed sometime during Lent or between February 11 and March 29 of 1347. Petrarch continued to add to the text as late as 1356, and the treatise was probably not finished until 1357 . Edited & translated by Susan S. Schearer. Introduction by Ronald G. Witt. Notes, Bibliography, Index of Citations, General Index.— Google Books