In 1350, the Italian humanist and poet Francesco Petrarca
(Petrarch) decided to form a collection of all his correspondence.
The letters deal with multifatious topics, switch between narration
and instruction, and the personal and the general, and are
addressed to various of his learned friends and contemporaries.
They are a treasure trove for the history of ideas. This is the
first complete German-language edition of the famous 24 books of
the Epistolae familiares; they have been translated from the Latin
by Prof. Berthe Widmer, an acknowledged authority on Petrarch. The
translation is accompanied by a detailed commentary on the texts,
giving factual information on aspects which are largely unknown
today, for example on persons, authors and places mentioned. Access
to the letters is further facilitated by an annotated index of the
addresses and an overview of the contents of the letters. A
detailed introduction locates the letters in the context of
Petrarch's complete works and his age. The letters represent a most
important document in the history of literature and are of
inestimable value for all literary scholars and for historians and
historians of philosophy.
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