read the following materials about prtrarch http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/29/stylethe-first-humanisy.html petrarch: letter to cicero:...

read the following materials about prtrarch

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/29/stylethe-first-humanisy.html

petrarch: letter to cicero:

http://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerp

http://history.hanover.edu/texts/petrarch/

using at least one citation from petrarch's letters.

what do you learn about petrarch from reading these letters?

what is the tone and attitude in these letters? what can you tell about his personality, interest,concerns? what was important to him?

why do you think he wrote letters to people in the past and to people in the future?