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  2. 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 ...

  3. 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.

  4. Ascent of Mont Ventoux - Wikipedia

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    This implicit claim of Petrarch and Burckhardt, that Petrarch was the first to climb a mountain for pleasure since antiquity, was disproven by Lynn Thorndike in 1943. [ 14 ] The Legitimacy of the Modern Age by Hans Blumenberg describes Petrarch's ascent of Ventoux as "one of the great moments that oscillate indecisively between the epochs ...

  5. Petrarch's and Shakespeare's sonnets - Wikipedia

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    The sonnets of Petrarch and Shakespeare represent, in the history of this major poetic form, the two most significant developments in terms of technical consolidation—by renovating the inherited material—and artistic expressiveness—by covering a wide range of subjects in an equally wide range of tones. Both writers cemented the sonnet's ...

  6. De viris illustribus (Petrarch) - Wikipedia

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    Both Liber I and Liber II of Petrarch's De Viris Illustribus in Latin only is located at Bibliotecaitaliana.it. Smith, William; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, Ancientlibrary.com, "Logbasis", Boston, (1867) Kirkham, Victoria, Petrarch: a critical guide to the complete works, University of Chicago, 2009, ISBN 0-226-43741-8

  7. Category:Petrarch - Wikipedia

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    Petrarch — Early Italian Renaissance humanist and writer of the 14th-century.. Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. P. Poetry by ...

  8. Epistolae familiares - Wikipedia

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    Petrarch discovered the text of Cicero's letters in 1345, which gave him the idea to collect his own sets of letters. It wasn't until four or five years later however, that he actually got started. It wasn't until four or five years later however, that he actually got started.

  9. De vita solitaria - Wikipedia

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    In the first chapter, Petrarch discusses two types of people. One is the city dweller who awakens in the middle of the night thinking of his clients with falsehoods. He thinks how he may be able to drive a corrupt bargain with ill-gotten profit gains or betraying his friends or his seductions for his neighbor's wife to tempt her away from her ...