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Excerpt from An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Vol. 2 Memoirs of the life of Petrarch. 'iii/ the year I 363, Boccace, driven from F lofience by the plague, vitited Petrarch at Venice, and. Carried with him Leontius Pilatus, of Thef falonica, a man of genius, but of haughty, rough, and brutal manners; from this fin. Gular man, who periihed in a voyage from Confiantinople' to Venice, 1365, Petrarch received a Latin tran ation of the Iliad and Ody ey. Muratori, in his I. Book, Della Perfetta Poefia, p. 18, relates, that a very few years after the death of Dante, 1321, a mo: curious work on the Italian poetry, was written by a M. A. Di T em po, 'of which he had fcen a manufcript in the great library at Milan, of the year 1332, and of which this is the title: Incipit Summa Artir Ritmia' vulgari: dic taminis. Ritmorum vu/g'arr'rim feptem funt genera. 1. Bit Sonetus. 2. Ballata. 3. Cautio extenfa. 4. Rotundellus. 5. Man. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."