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volume without a title which consists of 19 letters
volume without a title
which consists of 19 letters

The Liber sine nomine ("The Book without a Name") is a collection of nineteen letters written in Latin by the fourteenth century Italian poet and Renaissance humanist Petrarch. Latin ( lingua Latīna, laˈtiːna is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Francesco Petrarca ( July 20, 1304 – July 19, 1374) known in English as Petrarch, was an Italian scholar The letters are harshly critical of the Avignon papacy, and were withheld from the larger collection of Epistolae familiares (Letters to Friends) for this reason. In the History of the Roman Catholic Church, the Avignon Papacy was the period from 1309 to 1377 during which seven Popes all French, resided in Avignon Epistolae familiares was originally called by Petrarch Epistolarum mearum ad diversos liber ( "a book of my letters to different people") which In this fashion, Petrarch reasoned, a reader could throw away this group of 19 and the other letters to friends could be preserved for posterity.

These letters were sent to his closest friends, which many times were well known figures to the public. So that he would not devulge their idenity, he withheld these particular 19 letters and published this book "without a name" on any letter. Among these public figures were Philippe de Cabassoles, bishop of Cavaillon; Cola di Rienzo, an Italian medieval political leader; Francesco Nelli, secretary to the bishop Angelo Acciaioli I; Niccola di Capoccia, an Italian Cardinal; Lapo da Castiglionchio of Florence; Rinaldo Cavalchini, the son of the notary Oliviero; Stefano Colonna the Elder, the son of Giovanni Colonna who was one of the most important political figures in Rome, and Ildebrandino Conti, a bishop of Padua. The Bishop of Cavaillon, Philippe de Cabassoles, Seigneur of Vaucluse, was the great protector of Renaissance poet and Orator Francesco Cavaillon is a commune of the Vaucluse département, in southern France. Cola di Rienzo or di Rienzi ( c 1313 – October 8, 1354) was an Italian medieval politician and popular leader Tribune Francesco Nelli of Florence was secretary to the bishop Angelo Acciaiuoli I and a pastor at the Prior of the Church of the Holy Apostles in Florence Angelo Acciaioli I (1298 in Florence – October 4 1357 in Naples) was an Italian Catholic Bishop. Nicola Capocci (died 1368 was an Italian Cardinal. He studied law at the University of Perugia; later in 1362 he founded there the Collegium Gregorianum (later Lapo da Castiglionchio ( c 1316 - d 1381) was born in Rome and referred to as "Lepo the Elder Rinaldo Cavalchini, 1291-1362 lived in Villafranca di Verona near Verona and was better known as Rinaldo from Villafranca. Stefano Colonna was the name of several members of the Italian family of Colonna. Giovanni Colonna (born 1934 is a contemporary Italian scholar of ancient Italy and in particular the Etruscan civilization. Ildebrandino Conti was an Italian churchman and a member of the Conti family a noble Roman family In Letter 19 there was an appendix added addressed to the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV as a final plea to move the papacy back to Rome. Charles IV ( Czech: Karel IV, German: Karl IV, Hungarian: IV Károly; 14 May 1316 &ndash [1]

Petrarch here writes of the wheel of Lady Fortune,

Furthermore, it was a Roman who said “everything that is born must die; all things that grow, grow old. In Roman mythology, Fortuna (equivalent to the Greek goddess Tyche) goddess of fortune was the Personification of Luck; ” In time, therefore, all things grow old. Indeed, if the end of anything is its old age, then everything not already senile is certainly becoming so: for everything upright eventually falls and the fall is either preceded or at least accompanied by old age. There is no exception; whether they last long or not, all growing things sooner or later decline and waste away. Inconstant Fortune will turn her wheel ceaselessly, and will toss transient kingdoms from one people to another. In her wilfulness she will fashion kings out of slaves and slaves out of kings. She will wield her irresistible power over the city of Rome and the Roman world. [2]

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  1. ^ Zacour, Norman P. , Petrarch's Book Without A Name; translation of "Liber Sine Nomine", Pontifical Institure of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, Canada (1973), ISBN 0-88844-260-2
  2. ^ Ibid. , citing Sallust, Jugurthine War II, 3

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