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683 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 18 September 1888.
in note 16:
Petrarch spent much of his youth in Avignon, the residence of the popes. After studying in Montpellie...
in note 15:
... discusses Boccaccio’s friendship with Francesco Petrarch at length. The author quotes from their l...
in translation:
...oo. Some time ago I read an article on Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Giotto, Botticelli; my God, what a...
Giotto is extraordinary, anyway, and I feel him more than the poets: Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio.
689 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 26 September 1888.
in translation:
...ry well imagine the Renaissance poets, Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, strolling among these bushes on th...
695 To Paul Gauguin. Arles, Wednesday, 3 October 1888.
in note 12:
...hat Van Gogh is referring to the poets Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio and the painters Giotto and Bott...
in translation:
...eadily picture to oneself Botticelli, Giotto, Petrarch, Dante and Boccaccio. In the decoration I’ve...
... the old poet of this place (or rather, of Avignon), Petrarch, and of its new poet — Paul Gauguin.

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