The boy travellers in southern Europe : adventures of two youths in a journey through Italy, southern France, and Spain, with visits to Gibraltar and the islands of Sicily and Malta (1893)
Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896 · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 258
and was stimulatedto his own work by Dantes example. He Avas treated in just the oppo-site manner in which Dante had been treated. Great men of all countriessought to know him. Kings and princes endeavored to do him honor;and he was invited to Eome, where he was received by a triumphal pro-cession,… … CORONATION OF PETRARCH. 238 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN SOUTHERN EUROPE. in which he lived. He was not so great a poet as Dante, but he was amost earnest advocate of the revival of learning, and did much towardsawakening the taste for Greek and Koman literature which prevailed inItaly during the…
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