Contrary to his contemporary jurists, what did Petrarch find in Roman law texts?
A) He found justification for Florence's treatment of her rival, Pisa.
B) He focused on the context of the laws, rather than assuming parallels between the lost Roman world and his own.
C) He observed connections between the texts and the Christian Bible.
D) He discerned the philosophical underpinnings of Roman law, which he traced back to earlier Greek jurists.
E) He found a mirror to his own society; Italians of his day thought and acted just like their ancestors.
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