The secret

Petrarch's Secret and Renaissance humanism: Petrarch and the humanist movement ; The secret ; A note on the translation

The secret

Related documents: Petrarch, First letter to Marcus Tullius Cicero, dated June 16, 1345 ; Augustine, from Confessions, finished ca. 400 C.E. ; Virgil, from Aeneid, ca. 20 B.C.E., and Augustine, from The city of God, finished ca. 426 C.E.

Appendixes: Glossary of names ; A Petrarch chronology (1304-1374) ; Questions for consideration.