Letters addressed to a ghost
The beginning of Petrarch's letter to Homer in Vatican, BAV, Urb.lat.330
When we think of Renaissance humanism, several things leap to mind: the rediscovery of the classics, the discovery of manuscripts and works previously thought lost, a taste for antiquity, Cicero's eloquence, classical ideas, imitation of the ancient masters. But we rarely, if ever, …
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