Tuesday, July 30, 2019

 

Escape from the Present

Petrarch, Letter to Posterity (tr. James Harvey Robinson):
Among the many subjects which have interested me, I have dwelt especially upon antiquity, for our own age has always repelled me, so that, had it not been for the love of those dear to me, I should have preferred to have been born in any other period than our own. In order to forget my own time I have constantly striven to place myself in spirit in other ages.

Incubui unice, inter multa, ad notitiam vetustatis, quoniam michi semper etas ista displicuit; ut, nisi me amor carorum in diversum traheret, qualibet etate natus optaverim, et hanc oblivisci, nisus animo me aliis semper inserere.
Hat tip: Eric Thomson.



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