Petrarch 3.1

This volume of Cicero, one of the earliest to issue from Jenson's Venetian press, is open to one of the non-Ciceronian texts the book contains. Petrarch's "Epistola ad Ciceronem" (letter to Cicero), taken from the Renaissance writer's Familiar Letters (XXIV.3), is addressed to the Classical author who perhaps meant as much to Petrarch as any writer of any era.. The Ciceronian texts are those Petrarch himself had found (at Verona, in 1345) during his explorations of monastic libraries.