The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 11F. De Fau, 1906 - Byzantine Empire |
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... Petrarch employs his eloquence to reconcile the maritime powers , the two luminaries of Italy . The orator celebrates the valour and victory of the Genoese , the first of men in the exercise of naval war ; he drops a tear on the ...
... Petrarch employs his eloquence to reconcile the maritime powers , the two luminaries of Italy . The orator celebrates the valour and victory of the Genoese , the first of men in the exercise of naval war ; he drops a tear on the ...
Page 275
... Petrarch , by his lessons and his example , may justly be applauded as the first harbinger of day . A purer style of composition , a more generous and rational strain of sentiment , flowed from the study and imitation of the writers of ...
... Petrarch , by his lessons and his example , may justly be applauded as the first harbinger of day . A purer style of composition , a more generous and rational strain of sentiment , flowed from the study and imitation of the writers of ...
Page 281
... Petrarch dropped a tear on his disaster ; but he was most anxious to learn whether some copy of Euripides or Sophocles might not be saved from the hands of the mariners.97 But the faint rudiments of Greek learning , which Petrarch had ...
... Petrarch dropped a tear on his disaster ; but he was most anxious to learn whether some copy of Euripides or Sophocles might not be saved from the hands of the mariners.97 But the faint rudiments of Greek learning , which Petrarch had ...
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