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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born Francesco di Petracco on 20 July 1304, Petrarch came up as an Italian scholar and poet at the edge of something new. His rediscovery of Cicero's letters is credited with igniting the 14th-century Italian Renaissance and founding Renaissance humanism. In the 16th century, Pietro Bembo used Petrarch's works — along with Boccaccio's and, to a lesser extent, Dante's — to build the model for modern Italian; the Accademia della Crusca later endorsed him as the standard for Italian style. His sonnets were admired and imitated across Europe during the Renaissance, becoming the model for lyrical poetry. He also developed the concept of the "Dark Ages". He died 19 July 1374.