Letter to Posterity
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Petrarch's Letter to Posterity was written originally in Latin and was completed in 1371 or 1372.[1]
Many of Petrarch's life facts are in this autobiography.
- He was born in Arezzo in 1304.
- He received his elementary schooling in grammar, logic, and rhetoric in Avignon and Carpentras.
- He wrote of Scipio Africanus in his epic poem Africa
- He was crowned poet laureate in Rome.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Ernest H. Wilkins, "On the Evolution of Petrarch's Letter to Posterity," Speculum 39, pp. 304-308.
[edit] External links
- Petrarch's Letter to Posterity (1909 English translation, with notes, by James Harvey Robinson)
