 Historians show how it was quite likely that Petrarch met Chaucer and that the "Africa" and other of Petrarch's works influenced works of Chaucer, especially certain episodes of Canterbury Tales.Scholar Aldo Bernardo in his book "Petrarch, Scipio, and the Africa" argues emphatically that Petrarch's chief thought considerations were not of Laura, but that of his epic poem's hero - Cornelius Scipio.The "editio princeps" of the "Africa" was first published and printed, as part of Petrarch's collected works ("Opera omnia") at Venice in 1501.