L'ascencion du Mont Ventoux marque une conversion, la réconsiliation de Pétrarque avec l'ordre du monde et la splendeur de Dieu. Il parle plusde son dieu que du Mont Ventoux! ( )

Die Besteigung des Mont Ventoux (The Ascent of Mount Ventoux) is a letter taken from Petrarch's collected Epistolae familiares (it's book IV, letter 1). Written some years after the fact to one Dionigi di Borgo San Sepolcro, in the letter Petrarch describes climbing Mount Ventoux in Provence with his brother in 1336. Suffice to say, once he gets to the top he naturally starts thinking big, philosophical thoughts. No one is really sure how accurate the account is, or if Petrarch really climbed the mountain at all, but it does make for interesting reading. So if it sounds interesting to you, why not track down a copy? ( )