Petrarch's Secret or The Soul's Conflict with Passion - Three Dialogues Between Himself and S. Augustine - FULL ENGLISH TRANSLATION - Translated From the Latin by William H. Draper - Mrs. Jerrold indeed goes so far as to say that Petrarch -plunges into the most scathing self-examination that any man ever made. Whether the book was intended for the public we may well doubt, both from the words of the preface and from the fact that it does not appear...