 Petrarch was writing his third book of the "Secretum", a sort of self investigation of moral values especially as it related to fame, structured as an imaginary dialogue with Saint Augustine, also in the 1350s.From this developed the "Secretum's Africa," a conflict between the vanity of the glory for Rome and Christian values.Petrarch also set the rewritting in the 1350s in relation to events that recently happened.