Italian scholar and poet (1304-1374)
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He found a cache of ancient letters and set off a civilisation. Petrarch's rediscovery of Cicero sparked the 14th-century Italian Renaissance and gave humanism its vocabulary — then his sonnets became the template Europe copied for centuries.
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 p…
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Continued work and application form my soul's nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live. I know my own powers.
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
To-day I made the ascent of the highest mountain in this region, which is not improperly called Ventosum.
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
My brother, waiting to hear something of St. Augustine's from my lips, stood attentively by.
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