The introductory letter of Petrarch's collection of prose epistles (Epistolae Familiares) includes a number of traditional programmatic elements, including a dedication to his close friend Ludwig Van Kempen, a narrative describing the collection's genesis, and a defence of its style and contents, rooted in the example of Cicero's letters to Atticus, Quintus, and Brutus, which Petrarch had discovered some five years earlier. In other ways, Fam. 1.1 is an absolutely unprecedented introduction to an epistolary collection — ultimately staging within the letter a kind of ‘conversion narrative’ that transforms the yet‐uncompleted collection into an instantiation of the spiritual journey of its author.

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古代的收藏习惯：彼得拉克家族中的“人”和西塞罗。1.1

彼得拉克（Petrarch）散文书信集（Epistolae Familiares）的介绍信包括许多传统的程序化元素，包括对他的密友路德维希·范·肯本（Ludwig Van Kempen）的奉献，描述该集的起源的叙述以及对其样式和内容的辩护，植根于例如西塞罗写给Atticus，Quintus和Brutus的信，这是Petrarch在五年前发现的。在其他方面，Fam。1.1是对书信馆藏的绝对前所未有的介绍—最终在书中提出了一种“转换叙事”，将尚未完成的馆藏转变成其作者精神之旅的实例。