It might have been hoped that the two geniuses would have become intimate friends; but there is no trace of their having even spoken to each other.

Petrarch's neglect of Froissart may not have been so wonderful; but it is strange that the latter should not have been ambitious to pay his court to the greatest poet then alive.

It is imaginable, however, that Petrarch, with all his natural gentleness, was proud in his demeanour to strangers; and if so, Froissart was excusable for an equally-proud reserve.
In the midst of the fetes that were given for the nuptials of the English prince, Petrarch received news of the death of his grandchild.
This little boy had died at Pavia, on the very day of the marriage of Lionel and Violante, when only two years and four months old.

Petrarch caused a marble mausoleum to be erected over him, and twelve Latin lines of his own composition to be engraved upon it.

He was deeply touched by the loss of his little grandson.