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Excerpt from Petrarch and the Ancient World
This book attempts to throw light on one as pecft of his historic role. A Latin writer of French nationality esteems himself honoured in having been asked to address a cultivated public on the other side of the Atlantic on the subject of one of the great ancestors of the Italian nation, to whom the entire thinking portion of mankind should render homage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
