I shall content myself with their leavings, and with what the holy father may think meet to give, if he deigns to think of me." Bruni was right.

The Pope, beset by applications on all hands, had no time to think of Petrarch.

Bruni for a year discontinued his correspondence.

His silence vexed our poet.

He wrote to Francesco, saying, "You do not write to me, because you cannot communicate what you would wish.