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The Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus ' (Russian: Патриарх Московский и всея Руси, romanized: Patriarkh Moskovskiy i vseya Rusi), also known as the Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia, [2] [3] is the title of the primate of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC). It is often preceded by the honorific "His Holiness".
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 ...
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.
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]
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.
Miniature on l. 5 verso of the Codex Amiatinus, which opens the Old Testament.It shows Ezra as a monastic scribe. Florence, Laurentian Library. Historiography in the Middle Ages (in Russian: Средневековая историография, in German: Mittelalterliche Geschichtsschreibung, in French: Historiographie médiévale) is an intentional preservation of the memory of the past in ...
Historical Russian naming conventions did not include surnames. A person's name included that of their father: e.g. Иван Петров сын (Ivan Petrov syn) which means "Ivan, son of Peter". That is the origin of most Russian -ov surnames.
Petrarch — Early Italian Renaissance humanist and writer of the 14th-century.. Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. P. Poetry by ...