Gerson never met Petrarch in person. However, a comparative study of these authors allows us to evaluate the crucial role of national pride in revealing the initial difference between early French and Italian forms of humanism. While the Italians, oppressed by Parisian intellectual prestige, were interested in breaking away from the medieval past, the French were interested in continuity with the medieval tradition, wherein they perceived the glory and the legitimacy of the French nation.

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• Mazour-Matusevich, Y., (2025), "Gerson et Pétrarque: humanisme et l’idée nationale", HSSCommons: (DOI: )

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Original publication: Mazour-Matusevich, Yelena. "Gerson et Pétrarque: humanisme et l’idée nationale." Renaissance and Reformation 37 (1): 2020. 45-80. DOI: 10.33137/rr.v37i1.8671. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Iter Canada / Renaissance and Reformation. Copyright © the author(s). Their work is distributed by Renaissance and Reformation under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. For details, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/.