At Verona in 1345 Petrarch finds Cicero’s letters to Atticus as received

In 1345 at Verona Petrarch reports discovering a manuscript of Cicero’s letters to Atticus (and related correspondence), which he copied and which reshaped his image of the Roman letter as a humanist genre. It is not Liège 1333 and not a later Loeb.

Context

A chapter library in Verona is not Petrarch’s private desk. Shared with keepers. The letters showed a Cicero who was not only a philosophical statue. Later print culture spread the text; he did not typeset 1470. Year-level date.

The contribution type is direct. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Why it matters

Recovering Atticus-letters is a data path of high confidence in the biographical tradition and substantial cultural weight inside humanism, still modest as a macro indicator. It is not GDPR and not a unique byte-count.

Shared responsibility is part of At Verona in 1345 Petrarch finds Cicero’s letters to Atticus as received. Naming Petrarch does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1345-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.