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Born | 20 Julie 1304 Arezzo, Italy |
Dee'd | 19 Julie 1374 Arquà, Italy | (aged 69)
Thrift | Scholar, poet |
Naitionality | Italian |
Period | Early Renaissance |
Leeterar muivement | Renaissance humanism |
Bairns | Giovanni (1337–1361) Francesca (born in 1343) |
Relatives | Eletta Canigiani (mither) Ser Petracco (faither) |
Francesco Petrarca (Italian pronunciation: [franˈtʃesko peˈtrarka]; 20 Julie 1304 – 19 Julie 1374), commonly anglicised as Petrarch, wis an Italian scholar an poet in Renaissance Italy, an ane o the earliest humanists. His rediskivery o Cicero's letters is eften creditit wi ineetiatin the 14t-century Renaissance. Petrarch is eften conseedert the foonder o Humanism.[1] In the 16t century, Pietro Bembo creatit the model for the modren Italian leid based on Petrarch's warks, as weel as thae o Giovanni Boccaccio, an, tae a lesser extent, Dante Alighieri.[2] Petrarch wad be later endorsed as a model for Italian style bi the Accademia della Crusca.
Petrarch's sonnets war admired an imitatit ootthrou Europe in the Renaissance an becam a model for lyrical poetry. He is an aw kent for bein the first tae develop the concept o the "Daurk Ages."[3]