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This Primary Source: Livy By Francesco Petrarch

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This primary source was written by Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) to a literary ancient, Livy. Petrarch writes to Livy about what would be the situation in which they would meet if it were to occur. He talks of how men are “…only dumb beasts of the field” and are only concerned with “gold and silver, and the desire nothing except sensual, physical pleasures.” It sounds like Petrarch is daydreaming and Romanizing Livy’s time, with a statement referring to his own time he said, “Often I am filled with bitter indignation against the morals of today.” From this source we can learn about how poets saw other poets and historians of another time. The way that Petrarch Romanizes Livy, gives us the insight into what other like him may have thought about
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