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The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch

PREFACE
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"As for my burial," he says, "let it be made as my friends think fit.

What signifies it to me where my body is laid ?" He then makes some bequests in favour of the religious orders; and he founds an anniversary in his own church of Padua, which is still celebrated every year on the 9th of July.
Then come his legacies to his friends.

He bequeathes to the Lord of Padua his picture of the Virgin, painted by Giotto; "the beauty of which," he says, "is little known to the ignorant, though the masters of art will never look upon it without admiration." To Donato di Prato Vecchio, master of grammar at Venice, he leaves all the money that he had lent him.

He bequeathes the horses he may have at his death to Bonzanello di Vigoncia and Lombardo da Serigo, two friends of his, citizens of Padua, wishing them to draw lots for the choice of the horses.

He avows being indebted to Lombardo da Serigo 134 golden ducats, advanced for the expenses of his house.


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