Petrarch's Letters to Classical Authors

Note 90 — VII. TO ASINIUS POLLIO

Mario Emilio Cosenza translation

This is making it unnecessarily strong. Cicero’s statements are more guarded, and his criticisms are milder, than one would be led to suppose from the language of Petrarch. In the Brutus, where Cicero speaks of Calvus at great length, his language is reserved. In sec. 279 he says:

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