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The Medieval Church · c. 1350–1366
Letters on Familiar Matters
Rerum Familiarium Libri
Francesco Petrarca · 1304–1374
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What it is
Letters gathered and polished for publication, including several addressed to Cicero and Augustine as though they were living correspondents.
Why it lasted
The revival of the classical letter collection as a literary form, and the beginning of the humanist republic of letters.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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