Un dialogo marginale: Petrarca, i classici e i padri della chiesa

A marginal dialogue: Petrarch, the Classics and the Church Fathers · In this article I will focus on two cases of ‘connection’ between Petrarch’s notes written in the margin of his books and his literary production. The first one concerns a passage of De Otio religioso that reflects the Petrarch’s reading of Cicero’s Tusculanae disputationes and Pro Sulla. In the second part of the essay I will analyze the stratification of a marginal note about the benefit of the death added by Petrarch on his copy of Augustine’s De vera religione.