Others discovered the joy of reading classical books and became interested in poetry, history, and philosophy. ... Humanist would use classical work as models to write about literature and philosophy that discussed their own time (A Divided Italy: Home of The Renaissance). ...

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Most of these were actually posted; a few, such as his rhetorical letters to Cicero, Plato, and Seneca, were never intended to be, but were simply written as a statement of Petrarch's philosophy in the context of the addressee's. ...

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