De remediis utriusque fortunae

De remediis utriusque fortunae is one of the masterpieces of the Italian humanist Francesco Petrarch ( 1304-1374 ). Petrarch was working on it from 1354 to 1367. , He describes in Latin prose in 254 chapters fortunes and misfortunes of mankind. In the first part ( Chapter 122 ) demonstrates the personalized reason (ratio) that all alleged happiness is vain. In the second part ( Chapter 132 ), the reason of consolation against the supposed misfortune.

The book also found in translations in vernacular languages ​​widely used. The German translation that appeared in 1532 in Heynrich Steyner in Augsburg under the title From the Artzney bayder happiness in print, was published with the cooperation of the humanist Sebastian Brant and illustrated with 254 woodcuts by the anonymous Master Petrarch. None of the woodcuts is titled, but each woodcut illustrates the chapter which he illustrated. The work was frequently reprinted. It was marketed in the aftermath of all German titles catchier, about happiness Book ( Augsburg 1539), book of consolation (Frankfurt am Main 1551 and 1559 ) and comfort levels (Frankfurt am Main, six editions from 1572 to 1620, Lüneburg 1637 ). The woodcuts of the edition of 1532 were still used in the edition of 1620.

An English translation by Thomas Twyne appeared in 1579 under the title Phisicke Against Fortune.