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(3rd edition)
The 1st ed. edited by Nicolaus Lucerus - the 1st dated ed.
& the 1st printed in Italy. These dialogues on human
happiness & unhappiness are Petrarch's greatest work
of moral philosophy & was the most immediately popular.
Among the many subjects are the possession & use of
books, pictures etc.
In this work Petrarch set out systemetically his views on a
great variety of subjects connected - the conduct of life displaying
his encyclopaedic knowledge. The work has value for the
history of medicine since it deals - a number of medical questions:
De vulneribus acceptis, de senectitute, de podagra, de scabie,
de aegritudine tibiarum, de caecitate, de auditu perdito, de
infirma memoria, de loquentie defectu, de amissa lingua, de
felsribus, de dolore yliaco.
The 3rd book printed by this press which was the 2nd at
Cremona.
HEHL no rub. my leaf. (last 1/3 of vol.) x6 (of 6).
(104141) 2nd book
2 books { 1 folio 2-77
{ 2 folio 81-160
Dialogus CCIX - Dormire no possum fo. 129
CCX Somniis inquietor fo 130
CCXi Celebrior sum fo 130
1st edition - date.
The De remediis, written between 1354 & 56 is in the form of
254 discussion - dialogues. In the 1st 122 dialogues Reason
demonstrates to Joy & Hope that earthly things may appear
worth possessing but in the end are worthless. In the
other 132 dialogues Reason shows Grief & Fear that there
is no real misery in life because what men consider
misery serves, in fact to make them better & to lead them
to God. No wonder the De Remediis has been considered
not only a thoroughly Christian but even a specifically
medieval work & was an immediate success.