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FRANCESCO PETRARCA, 1304-1374
De remediis utriusque fortune (excerpts)
On paper
Italy, 15th century (before 1495), copied by Carlo di
Palla Guidi
MS 380, ff. 202v - 203r
Excerpts from Petrarch’s moral encyclopedia, De
remediis utriusque fortune, are joined together in
a miscellaneous florilegium manuscript of varied
texts on moral philosophy. The reader finds, bound in
one volume, the De quattuor virtutibus attributed
to Seneca but written by Martin of Braga, the Salomonis
dicta, the Manipulus florum by Thomas of
Ireland, De temporibus by St. Isidore, miscellaneous
definitions and etymologies primarily of Greek words,
and verses entitled “Sancti Vitalis verba.”
With the De remediis utriusque fortune, Petrarch
took his place in the 15th century as one of the principal
moral philosophers whose work counseled the reader to
cope with good and bad fortune whenever and wherever it
manifested itself.
As with many miscellaneous books, there is a concern to
identify the authors of the texts in MS 380. In the margin
we clearly see “PETRARCA,” highlighted in
red.
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