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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1776 Excerpt: ... 6th of April 1327, at Avignon, in the church of St. Claire, at the first hour of the day: I was then in my youth. In the fame city, on the fame day, and at the fame hour, in the year 1348, this luminary disappeared from our world. I was then at Verona, ignorant of my wretched situation. That chaste and beautiful body was buried the fame day after vespers in the church of the Cordeliers: her soul returned to its native mansion in heaven. To retrace the melancholy remembrance of this great loss I have written it with a pleasure mixed with bitterness in a book I often refer to This loss convinces me there is no longer any thing worth living for. Since the strongest cord of my life is broken, with the grace of God I shall easily renounce a world where my cares have been deceitful, and my hopes vain and periming.' INDEX TO THE FIRST VOLUME. jQFRICA, a poem by Petrarch so styled, 200, 122, 9, 2S3- 27 5' Aix la Cbapellt, Petrarch's account of, 77. Andre, John, a professor of Bologna, 50. his false erudi-tion, 52. Andrew, Prince of Hungary, his marriage, 399. his as-sassination, 398. Angiosciola, Lancelot, asks Petrarch for a remedy for lore, 540. Petrarch's answer, ibid. Anguillora, Orso, Count os, receives Petrarch at Capranica, 126. his amiable character, 130. Crowns Petrarch as Senator of Rome, 239. Augustin, St. the favourite of Petrarch, 29, 313. his dia-logues with that Saint, 313--337. Avignon, the Roman See sixed at, 5. its situation and climate, 7. a singular plague there, 89. licentiousness of, 20, 286, 3C8. described by Petrarch, 310--313. Barbatus, of Sulmone, Petrarch's second Ovid, 365. Pe-trarch's uneasiness for him, 470. Barberini, Cardinal, had an old picture of Laura, 40. Btaume, St. visited by Petrarch, 181. Voi. f. N a, BHtari, Biccari, A...
