A Source Book of Mediæval History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance

CHAPTER XXVI.--THE BEGINNINGS OF THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE

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79. Dante's Defense of Italian as a Literary Language 445

80. Dante's Conception of the Imperial Power 452

81. Petrarch's Love of the Classics 462

82. Petrarch's Letter to Posterity 469