Note 25 — JAMES HARVEY ROBINSON

Petrarch returned to Vaucluse in 1342, when he was toward thirty-eight years old. There is an air of Wahrheit und Dichtung noticeable elsewhere in the letter. It was, for example, probably later, in 1344, on a second visit to Parma, that he bought his house, and then went to Verona, where he found the letters of Cicero.