9: Sidonius was born in Lyons; the epithet "arvernus" refers to his bishopric of Clermont, anciently called Arverni.
10: See note above, p. 141 (Phrases which pleased when they occurred...).
11: Quintilian's _Institutes_, bk. x., ch. i., §§ 109-112.
13: Familiarum rerum liber. See below, p. 153 _sqq_ (The entire prose correspondence of Petrarch...)
14: A reference to the plague of 1348; see above, pp. 113, 114. (We may infer that he now enjoyed...)
15: This list of woes seems to have been suggested by Cicero's experience rather than his own.
16: See the letters to Cicero, given below, p. 239 _sqq_. (He wrote to the emperor and the pope...)
17: Petrarch elsewhere expresses doubts whether Seneca really wrote this tragedy which, it is now generally believed, is by another hand. See _Fam_., xxiv., 5.
18: See below, Part III., for examples of these letters.
19: _Fam_., xxiii., 19 (vol. iii., pp. 237, 238).
21: There are but three hundred and forty-seven in the codices used by Fracassetti. See _Let. delle Cos. Fam_., v., p. 110.
22: _Castigata, i.e_., without any flourishes such as disfigure the manuscripts of the period. See the facsimile of Petrarch's own clear handwriting, p. 238. (A PAGE OF PETRARCH'S COPY OF THE "ILIAD.")
23: The other great classical collections of letters, Pliny's, appears to have been unknown to Petrarch. See, further, p. 230 _sq_. (Petrarch's letters afford countless illustrations...)
24: See above, p. 134. (I was more indulgent to these,...)
25: See below, p. 172. (His age seemed to be the only obstacle)
26: _Fam_., xxiv., 13 (vol. iii., p. 307).
27: One earlier letter (1326), and a half dozen written later, have found their way into this group.
28: _Fam_., xxiv., 13 (vol, iii., p. 306).
30: In the Basle editions of the works, and in the editions of the letters published in 1601, some letters are included among the _Epistolæ sine Titulo_ which apparently do not belong there.
31: Not more than one-third are to be found in the Basle editions of 1554 and 1581.
32: _Francisci Petrarcæ Epistolæ de Rebus Familiaribus et Variæ_, studio et cura Josephi Fracassetti, Tom. iii., 8°, Florentiæ, 1859-63.
33: _Fam_., xxiv., 13 (vol, iii., p. 306).
34: In the notes to his Italian version of the letters.