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  2. Dark Ages (historiography) - Wikipedia

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    Petrarch was the first to give the metaphor secular meaning by reversing its application. He now saw classical antiquity , so long considered a 'dark' age for its lack of Christianity, in the 'light' of its cultural achievements, while Petrarch's own time, allegedly lacking such cultural achievements, was seen as the age of darkness.

  3. Epistolae familiares - Wikipedia

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    Examples of Petrarch's letters from Seniles in Latin only from Italian institution Biblioteca Italiana; Complete list of all the books and the letters within the collection as titled by Aldo S. Bernardo. Medieval Sourcebook: Francesco Petrarch: Letters, c 1372; Francesco Petrarch - Life Stories, Books, and Links

  4. Ascent of Mont Ventoux - Wikipedia

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    Petrarch's implication that he was the first to climb mountains for pleasure, [10] and Burckhardt's insistence on Petrarch's sensitivity to nature have been often repeated since. [11] There are also numerous references to Petrarch as an "alpinist",. [12] However Mont Ventoux is not a hard climb, and is not usually considered part of the Alps. [13]

  5. Google Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    Google Dictionary is an online dictionary service of Google that can be accessed with the "define" operator and other similar phrases [note 1] in Google Search. [2] It is also available in Google Translate and as a Google Chrome extension. The dictionary content is licensed from Oxford University Press's Oxford Languages. [3]

  6. Morris Bishop - Wikipedia

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    Bishop translated Petrarch's letters (selected from both the Familiares and the Seniles, and elsewhere) from Latin for Letters from Petrarch (1966). Mark Musa , a scholar of Italian literature, thought it an "elegant" translation—one that "captured the spirit and tone of the poet's Latin letters". [ 42 ]

  7. Google Translate - Wikipedia

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    Google Translate is a multilingual neural machine translation service developed by Google to translate text, documents and websites from one language into another. It offers a website interface, a mobile app for Android and iOS, as well as an API that helps developers build browser extensions and software applications. [3]

  8. Google reveals AR glasses that can translate speech in real ...

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    The demo showed how Google’s Translate can automatically listen to speech and translate it in real-time, displaying the translated text for the wearer to see and read with ease.

  9. Petrarch - Wikipedia

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    Santa Maria della Pieve in Arezzo La Casa del Petrarca (birthplace) at Vicolo dell'Orto, 28 in Arezzo. 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 from Arezzo and poet of the early Italian Renaissance and one of the ...