The papers in this volume study the early influence of Petrarch in France and in the Crown of Aragon. They focus in particular on Bernat Metge c. 13481413 a prominent member of the Aragonese Royal Chancery who produced a Catalan adaptation of Petrarchs Griseldis from Seniles XVII 34 around 1388 making a Latin work of Petrarch available for the first time in the Iberian Peninsula. Moreover Metges fragmentary Apology1395 and his Dream 1399 reveal familiarity with PetrarchsSecretum Familiares and possibly De remediis. His fine imitation of Petrarchan models and his interest in classical literature put Metge on a par with contemporaneous writers elsewhere in Europe. This book aims to introduce a wider readership to an aspect of the dissemination of Petrarchs Latin writings which has so far received little attention and also to shed light on the cultural relations between France and the Crown of Aragon in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries.