My principle is that, as concerning the glory from which we may hope for here below fon earth], it is right for us to seek it while we are here below . One may expect to enjoy that other more radiant glory in heaven, when we shall have there arrived, and when one will have no more care or wish for the glory of earth. Therefore, as I think, it is in the true order that mortal men should first care for mortal things.

According to Petrarch, a humanist, with what should people be concerned, and how is this similar or different from the interests of people in the middle Ages? ​