A Pilgrimage to Petrarch's House at Arqua.

This article presents information regarding Italian poet Francesco Petrarch and the Arqua where he lived. The Euganean Hills, on one of which the poet's house is built, are those mellow heights which could be seen while looking southwest across the lagoon at Venice. In misty weather they are blue, and in clear weather silver. On very bright days the lagoon seems to swim under them, and float them on its dazzling expanse, and the October sunset loves them. It dies upon their summits, whither it trails itself in bloody-red athwart the crimson water.