Note 322 — Chapter III · THE MODERN IDEA OF FAME.
S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation
Opera, ed. 1581, p. 177: ‘De celebritate nominis importuna.’ Fame among the mass of people was specially offensive to him. Epp. Fam. i. 337, 340. In Petrarch, as in many humanists of the older generation, we can observe the conflict between the desire for glory and the claims of Christian humility.