In truth, I have always been tempted to believe in destiny; and why not, if, by the word destiny, we understand Providence ?" As soon as his leg was recovered, he made a trip to Bergamo.

There was in that city a jeweller named Enrico Capri, a man of great natural talents, who cherished a passionate admiration for the learned, and above all for Petrarch, whose likeness was pictured or statued in every room of his house.

He had copies made at a great expense of everything that came from his pen.

He implored Petrarch to come and see him at Bergamo.

"If he honours my household gods," he said, "but for a single day with his presence, I shall be happy all my life, and famous through all futurity." Petrarch consented, and on the 13th of October, 1358, the poet was received at Bergamo with transports of joy.