Excerpt from The Life of Petrarch, Vol. 2 of 2: Collected From Memoires Pour La Vie De Petrarch

He had fufiained. Your father predicted them, ' faid Petrarch. The cardinal demanded an account of this prediction. Petrarch was unwilling to comply with this requeft: but the cardinal infifted. Struck with what he heard, Alas!' fays he, I fear my father will prove too good a prophet.' This venerable old man was yet alive, and had attained almolt the age of an hundred years. Petrarch wrote him a letter of condolence, as follows.

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