Francis Petrarch (/ ˈpɛtrɑːrk, ˈpiːt -/; 20 July 1304 – 19 July 1374; Latin: Franciscus Petrarcha; modern Italian: Francesco Petrarca [franˈtʃesko peˈtrarka]), born Francesco di Petracco, was a scholar from Arezzo and poet of the early Italian Renaissance, as well …

Jul 20, 1998 · Petrarch, Italian scholar, poet, and humanist whose poems addressed to Laura, an idealized beloved, contributed to the Renaissance flowering of lyric poetry. He was regarded as the greatest scholar of his age.

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.

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.

Sep 21, 2021 · Petrarch was undoubtedly one of the most significant influences on the Renaissance, not only in Italy but throughout Europe. His poetry inspired other poets in the period and later to examine their interior life and emotions and celebrate the natural world and see love as something spiritual.

Petrarch , Italian Francesco Petrarca, (born July 20, 1304, Arezzo, Tuscany—died July 18/19, 1374, Arquà, near Padua, Carrara), Italian scholar, poet, and humanist. After 1326 he abandoned the study of law for his true interests, literature and the religious life.

Influenced by his interest in the classics, many of Petrarch’s poems are highly allegorical and constructed using Italian forms such as terza rima, ballate, sestine and canzoni. His poems investigate the connection between love and chastity in the foreground of a political landscape, though many of them are also driven by emotion and ...

Petrarch’s influence on literature was enormous and lasting—stretching through the Italian humanists of the following century to poets and scholars throughout western Europe at least until the 18th century.

View of Mont Ventoux from Mirabel-aux-Baronnies. The Italian poet Petrarch wrote about his ascent of Mont Ventoux (in Provence; elevation 1912 meters) on 26 April 1336 in a well-known letter published as one of his Epistolae familiares (IV, 1). In this letter, written around 1350, Petrarch claimed to be the first person since antiquity to have climbed a mountain for the view.

Petrarch 1304–1374 Italian poet and scholarThe poet and scholar known as Petrarch played a major role in launching the Renaissance in literature. One of the great scholars of his age, Petrarch had a deep commitment to the revival of classical* learning and culture.