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Excerpt from Life of Petrarch, Vol. 1 of 2
Domenico Aretino, and, not long afterwards, Sicco Polentono, Lionardo Aretino, and Gianozzo Ma netti, sought to satisfy this demand. But all these writers were destitute of literary research; they were ample praisers, but negligent inquirers their meagre and inaccurate accounts of the poet were almost all drawn either from his Epistle to Pos terity, or compiled from vulgar traditions, which jumbled together the great and the trivial, the true and the false.
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Domenico Aretino, and, not long afterwards, Sicco Polentono, Lionardo Aretino, and Gianozzo Ma netti, sought to satisfy this demand. But all these writers were destitute of literary research; they were ample praisers, but negligent inquirers their meagre and inaccurate accounts of the poet were almost all drawn either from his Epistle to Pos terity, or compiled from vulgar traditions, which jumbled together the great and the trivial, the true and the false.
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.
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Language - English
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Thomas Campbell
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ISBN - 9780260073334
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm
Page Count - 416
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Thomas Campbell
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ISBN - 9781330614686
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Page Count - 418
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