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Jul 20, 1998 · Petrarch (born July 20, 1304, Arezzo, Tuscany [Italy]—died July 18/19, 1374, Arquà, near Padua, Carrara) was an Italian scholar, poet, and humanist whose poems addressed to Laura, an idealized beloved, contributed to the Renaissance flowering of lyric poetry.
Francis Petrarch (/ ˈ p ɛ t r ɑːr k, ˈ p iː t-/; 20 July 1304 – 19 July 1374; Latin: Franciscus Petrarcha; modern Italian: Francesco Petrarca [franˈtʃesko peˈtrarka]), born Francesco di Petracco, was a scholar and poet of the early Italian Renaissance and one of the earliest humanists.
Aug 9, 2023 · Petrarch was a poet and scholar whose humanist philosophy set the stage for the Renaissance. He is also considered one of the fathers of the modern Italian language. Updated: Aug 9,...
Oct 22, 2020 · Petrarch (1304-1374 CE), full name Francesco Petrarca, was an Italian scholar and poet who is credited as one of the founders of the Renaissance movement in art, thought, and literature.
Francesco Petrarch was born in 1304 in Arezzo, Italy, though he spent most of his childhood living around Florence, Tuscany, and Avignon. After briefly studying law in Bologna in 1320, Petrarch decided to abandon the field, against his father’s wishes, to begin studying the classics and begin a…
The intellectual interests of Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca; his less-harmonious actual family name was Petracco) were literary and rhetorical (concerned, that is, with moral persuasion), but they were not confined to poetry; his political views were more opportunistic than Dante’s and his poetic technique more elaborate though less powerful.
Francesco Petrarca (1304–1374) was an early Italian Renaissance poet, scholar, and one of the founders of Humanism.
Petrarch - Known in English as Petrarch, Francesco Petrarca was an Italian poet who is credited with the development and popularization of the Italian sonnet.
Francesco Petrarch, who he was, what he did, his writings, letters and poems.
Francesco Petrarca was born in Arezzo, in central Italy, in 1304, but his family eventually moved to southern France. When Petrarch was 12 years old his father sent him to study law at the University of Montpellier. While Petrarch was there, his mother died, and he wrote an elegy* in Latin, the earliest of his works that still survives.
