Huck, More info from King on Marcello: The Fortebraccio was indeed Carlo, who wrote a consolatory dialgue ( Dialogus consolatorius ) - one of many authors who similar onr the death of Marcello's son Valerio: "He will display to Marcello his 'triumphs,' the author exclaims, in order to lessen hi...

Ross, Wish I could help you out on the 1418 refenece but I was just assuming Lorredan’s reference was correct. At all events the trajectory of this thread has veered far from the question of Marcello/Monselice/Petrarch (which was a dead end) and is headed…where? The relevant attributes that appear i...

Huck, Belated reply (was away for the recent American holiday). As for the photo of the Euganean Hills from Petrarch’s house in Arqua that wouldn’t load from Flickr– here’s someone else’s photo showing the same, but presumably from the garden (too bad as my photo included the long window frame so th...

Huck, I was at Petrarch's house last year and Monselice the spring of this year (had not picked up King's book yet or otherwise would have hit Monselice the first time around). Regarding the latter, the primary significance of Monselice to Marcello would have been that it was a former bastion of the...