ANTE S son Pietro, to whom Petrarch's Ep. met., III, 7, is addressed, was born in Florence in or before 1300, and presumably spent his boyhood there. By 1315 he was sharing his father's exile. In January, 1323, and again in January, 1324, he was in Florence (perhaps on the basis of special safe-conducts). In August, 1327, he was in Bologna. In 1332 he was serving in Verona as a judge and as delegate general of the podestd. His presence in Verona is attested for the years 1332-62 by some forty documents, most of them concerned with legal or administrative activities. He appeared in Florence in July, 1341, in connection with a contest over the division of the family property-a contest that came to an end only in 1347. There is no evidence that he ever returned to Florence after 1341. He died in 1364. By one of the provisions of his will he left half the house in Florence that had been his father's to the Society of Orsammichele and to the hospital of the Misericordia. He wrote an erudite commentary, in Latin, on his father's Commedia, and a few poems in Italian.' Petrarch and Pietro may have met as students at the University of Bologna, but there is no evidence that they did so. They must have met during Petrarch's stay in Verona in the spring and summer of 1345. They had much in common: both were Florentines; both were sons of men who had been banished in 1302, their property being confiscated; and bothPietro in a minor degree-were men of letters.