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The published Familiares make correspondents’ names and private matter public

The same Familiares that teach friendship also publish names, requests, and quarrels of living or recently living people in a designed book. In the causal graph this event weakens the driver Personal-Data Protection.

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The same Familiares that teach friendship also publish names, requests, and quarrels of living or recently living people in a designed book. Two paths, one book: this is the data-harm reading, modest because medieval letters expected some publicity, still a real editorial act on other persons.

Context

Contract forbids twins. The defence is two mechanisms: network cohesion versus exposure of persons. If collapsed, the exposure path is this one. Medium confidence on harm. Distinct from Secretum’s self-file.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

Why it matters

Publishing others is a data path of medium confidence and small-to-modest weight. It does not cancel the cohesion row. Mixed by design.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Mixed effects of The published Familiares make correspondents’ names and private matter public are separate paths.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Petrarch

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.2 · verified

    Named editor who published others’ addressee-file. Friends became copy-text. Direct on the publication choice.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactThe published Familiares make correspondents’ names and private matter public
    2. weakensDriverPersonal-Data Protection

    impact weight 0.2 · Effect from 1 January 1366 · verified

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Poetry Foundation — PetrarchPoetry Foundation · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.The Latin Library — PetrarchThe Latin Library · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Latin Library at https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/petrarch.html (opens in a new tab) and Poetry Foundation at https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/petrarch (opens in a new tab) independently mark the public letter-and-lyric file. Treccani treats the letter-books.

Established: Familiares as a published file of named persons. Not established: a unique consent register. Same year-cluster as the cohesion row, different path. Same letter-book, other path: names and private matter printed, year-level 1366, modest data harm. Official locator https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/petrarch.html (opens in a new tab) is not independent locator https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/petrarch (opens in a new tab).

Shared responsibility is part of The published Familiares make correspondents’ names and private matter public. Naming Petrarch does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1366-01-01 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.

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

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorPetrarch
  2. contributed toFactThe published Familiares make correspondents’ names and private matter public
  3. weakensDriverPersonal-Data Protection

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Factrail. (2026). The published Familiares make correspondents’ names and private matter public. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/pet-familiares-as-others-file

https://factrail.ai/facts/pet-familiares-as-others-file

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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