This book brings together thirty-five of the most incisive recommendations conceived by Petrarch in his Remedies for Fortunes --written between 1354 and 1366-- for the punishment of the prosperous and the consolation of the unfortunate. In them, the main passions of the soul enter into a dialogue with reason about the fruit, good or bad, of the various aspects of life: the attributes of the body and soul, distractions, education, art, relatives, friends, power, war, social position, health, money, love and death, among many others. A select moral summa that puts the weapons of philosophy at the service of the human being.
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