Abstract EN:

The first objective of this work is to make available the largest work written by Petrarch, his treatise De remediis utriusque fortune (1354 -1366). A critical edition of the text is provided together with a French translation, an extensive set of notes and an introduction which aims at defining the ambition and the contradictions of Petrarch's project (the meeting of the stoi͏̈c architecture of passions and the Christian scheme of vices and virtues, the crossing figures of the Roman age and contemporary realia), the role played in this project by stoicism , and the intermediate position of Petrarch between the schools of monastery and the University ; from such position stems the figure of the author, who resolves in the representation of his contradictions and the rights of subjectivity an increasing impossibility to secure access to an objective figure of the whole. A sum, therefore, but unorganised , providing a purely moral conclusion to the earlier knowledge, under the authority of the emerging figure of the writer.