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AN

HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL

ESSAY

ON THE

LIFE AND CHARACTER

OF

Petrarch.

WITH A TRANSLATION OF A FEW OF HIS

SONNETS.

ILLUSTRATED WITH

PORTRAITS AND ENGRAVINGS.

EDINBURGH:

Printed by James Ballantyne and Co.

FOR JOHN BALLANTYNE AND CO. EDINBURGH;

AND JOHN MURRAY, LONDON.

1810.