Petrarch

“A selection from his correspondence with Boccaccio and other friends. Designed to illustrate the beginnings of the Renaissance. An excellent work for the student, “it views Petrarch not as a poet, nor even, primarily, as a many-sided man of genius, but as the mirror of his age—a mirror in which are reflected all the momentous contrasts between waning Medievalism and the dawning Renaissance.”” — A.L.A. Catalog 1926