CHAPTER XXVI.--THE BEGINNINGS OF THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE

79. Dante's Defense of Italian as a Literary Language 445

80. Dante's Conception of the Imperial Power 452

81. Petrarch's Love of the Classics 462

82. Petrarch's Letter to Posterity 469

83. The Reply of Wyclif to the Summons of Pope Urban VI. (1384) 474

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