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Francesco Petrarch You may imagine now that I have something really important to tell you, but you are mistaken; and, as you well know, a thing must be trivial indeed which the author himself declares to be unimportant, for our own utterances are so dear to us that scarcely anyone is a good judge of his own performances, so prone are we to be misled by partiality for ourselves and our works.

Petrarch: Seniles

Petrarch made a collection of the letters he wrote. Divided into 18 books (including the last which contains only a single half written letter), there are a total of 128 letters. Due to copyrights of the English translations they can not all be shown here. However, some translations are available and they are included below.

V-IIIOn the Italian Language and Literature*
XVII-IIIThe Story of Griselda*
XVIII-IFrancesco Petrarch on Posterity*

* Translated by James Harvey Robinson (New York: G.P. Putnam, 1898) The First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters


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