We have nothing but coarse clothes, suitable to the season and the place we live in; but in this rustic dress we will repair to see you, since you command us; we fear not to present ourselves in this rustic dress; our desire to see you puts down every other consideration.

What matters it to us how we appear before one who possesses the depth of our hearts?
If you wish to see us often you will treat us without ceremony." His visits to Vaucluse were rather infrequent; business, he says, detained him often at Avignon, in spite of himself; but still at intervals he passed a day or two to look after his gardens and trees.

On one of these occasions, he wrote a pleasing letter to William of Pastrengo, dilating on the pleasures of his garden, which displays liveliness and warmth of heart.
Petrarch had not seen his brother since the latter had taken the cowl in the Carthusian monastery, some five years before.

To that convent he paid a visit in February, 1347, and he was received like an angel from heaven.

He was delighted to see a brother whom he loved so much, and to find him contented with the life which he had embraced.