THE past of the ANTIQUITY AS the up-to-date present in Petrarch's works
The article is an attempt to identify the main 'formulas' of the historical memory represented in the dialogues of Petrarch's treatise 'On the Remedies against the Vicissitudes of Life' (<i>De remediis utriusque fortunae</i>). The main idea is that through his appeal to the past Petrarch emphasizes the political, moral and social problems of his own time.