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In a letter to his physician friend, Petrarch demanded that Arabic authorities be excluded from advice about his health.

One scholarly English rendering reads:

“I beseech you that these Arabs of yours be kept off, that they be exiled from all your advice to me. I hate the whole race.”

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In Petrarch’s case, classical learning could coexist with—and sometimes give intellectual form to—group prejudice.

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