"Petrarch, the First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters" by Francesco Petrarca (translated by Henry Winchester Rolfe, James Harvey Robinson). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre.
Francesco Petrarca, commonly anglicized as Petrarch, was an Italian scholar and poet during the early Italian Renaissance who was one of the earliest humanists. Petrarch's rediscovery of Cicero's letters is often credited with initiating the 14th-century Italian Renaissance and the founding of Renaissance humanism.