Firstly, why do you say that your only motive to climb Mount Ventoux was because you wanted to see the greatness of the altitude? What made you decide to climb it? Was the reason just because of what you read in Livy’s History of Rome? I do believe that going to the top of a mountain is not an uncommon thing and is not strange by any means , I am just curious as to the reasons you have given for doing so as they are based on a book and just to see what greatness the elevation holds. (Doc 1.8) In your letter to Dionisio de Borgo San Sepolcro about your ascent of Mount Ventoux, I think that your humanism really showed. It showed in how you discussed that in History of Rome it describes how Philip of Macedon saw two seas from the summit of Mount Haemus, which would usually be something that you find from something having to do with things that are divine, but this is not. Did you think that you, too might be able to see something great like two oceans at the same time?…show more content… How come your friends do not have the right combination of characteristics and personal tastes? I just feel like since they are your friends, that you would have these things in common with them. After stating that your friends were not the right choice, you then go on to complain about them or make judgements of them and why they are not right to be your companion. You name things that are opposite to each other, an example is that you say one talks too little, but the other talks too much, (Doc 1.8) is this implying that you want just in between that and in between all of the other opposites that you named? Then, you realized that your perfect companion was your brother, what made you decide that and what made him perfect for the
