Epistolario

In 14th century Italy, Petrarch stands, with Dante and Boccaccio, as one of the three pillars of a new era in the West, marked by humanism. And, by rediscovering the tradition of the Latin classics, the poet of the Songbook, laureate in 1341 at the Capitol of Rome, distanced himself from theology and made the human being the main interest of knowledge. And precisely his epistolary work written in Latin contributed to proposing this unpublished project. In this edition of the monumental corpus in prose -made up of family letters, from old age, without addressee and scattered, which cover a good part of the poet's existence and almost a century of history-, Petrarca speaks to us as an observer of his turbulent times, of his contemporaries and himself, he dialogues with authors of the past, turning them into privileged interlocutors and creates his own intellectual community beyond time and space. Thus, he forges the figure of man, singular and mortal, but capable of exercising his freedom and transcending finitude by appealing to posterity. With Petrarch, art becomes an existential alternative to religious sentiment, and the artist, a human paradigm.