Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface List of Maps and Illustrations
PART ONE Introduction: Petrarch’s
Secret and Renaissance Humanism
Petrarch and the Humanist Movement
A Crown for a Poet
The Lure of the Past
Petrarch and the Ancients
Defining Humanism
Humanism After Petrarch
The Secret
A Humanist Manifesto
The Composition and Structure of
The Secret Augustinus
Augustinus and Franciscus
Laura
Franciscus
The Legacy of
The Secret A Note on the Translation
PART TWO
The Secret
PART THREE Related Documents
Petrarch,
First Letter to Marcus Tullius Cicero, Dated June 16, 1345
Augustine, From
Confessions, Finished ca. 400 C.E.
Virgil, From
Aeneid, ca. 20 B.C.E. and Augustine, From
The City of God, Finished ca. 426 C.E.
Appendixes
Glossary of Names
A Petrarch Chronology (1304-1374)
Questions for Consideration
Selected Bibliography
Index