Petrarch

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Petrarch
Petrarch

Climbed a mountain just to see the view. Wrote about it for seven centuries.

Petrarch
·1336·Mont Ventoux, France

And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.

Petrarch
·1336·Mont Ventoux, France

To-day I made the ascent of the highest mountain in this region, which is not improperly called Ventosum. My only motive was the wish to see what so great an elevation had to offer.