Philippe de Cabassoles
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Philippe de Cabassole or Philippe de Cabassoles, the Bishop of Cavaillon, Seigneur of Vaucluse, was the great protector of Renaissance poet Francesco Petrarch.
Philippe de Cabassole
Philippe de Cabassole's castle ruins
Portrait of Petrarch painted in 1376
De vita solitaria
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De vita solitaria is a philosophical treatise composed in Latin and written between 1346 and 1356 by Italian Renaissance humanist Petrarch. It constitutes an apology of solitude dedicated to his frien
Philippe de Cabassoles
…letters Petrarch wrote to his friend Phillippe that are in this reserved set of letters "without a name" of the recipient. Petrarch dedicated his work De vita solitaria to his friend Philip. A dedication to him is in the preface. Historian Wilkens tells of part of a letter Petrarch sent to Philip in 1371 that shows…
Cover for a 1600 edition of De Vita solitaria