The Life of Petrarch, Vol. 2 of 2

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Excerpt from The Life of Petrarch, Vol. 2 of 2: Collected From Memoires Pour La Vie De PetrarchHe had fufiained. Your father predicted them, ' faid Petrarch. The cardinal demanded an account of this prediction. Petrarch was unwilling to comply with this requeft: but the cardinal infifted. Struck with what he heard, Alas!' fays he, I fear my father will prove too good a prophet.' This venerable old man was yet alive, and had attained almolt the age of an hundred years. Petrarch wrote him a letter of condolence, as follows.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.