The Italian scholar Petrarch spent a significant period of time in southeastern France as a boy and a young man. In 1311, when he was seven years old, he moved to Avignon with his family; in 1312, he moved to the small town of Carpentras and remained there until 1316. During other periods of his life from the 1330s to the 1350s, he chose to reside in what is now the French department of Vaucluse.
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Of all the emotions that palpitate the breast of man, none is so potentially destructive as anger. It comes in many flavors and varieties; but the common thread running through all of them is a ruinous loss of control that renders a man incapable of exercising rational judgment.
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Anyone who has bothered to open the works of ancient Greek and Roman historians will notice marked differences between them and modern historians. The differences are not trivial. In how they express themselves, in what they emphasize or ignore, in how they view their responsibilities, and in various other ways, the ancients are simply different. There is no getting around this fact. I wanted to use this essay to suggest some ways of understanding the ancient historians; and if informed readers wince at my gross generalizations and oversimplifications, I make no apologies. Judgmental economy has its uses.
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I receive an email asking about the personal and professional aspects of litigation. Do things stay professional, or can things get personal? I offer some thoughts and comments from the trenches of the legal world.
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Quintus Curtius 
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