-
Francis Petrarch (/ˈpɛtrɑːrk, ˈpiːt-/; 20 July 1304 – 19 July 1374; Latin:
Franciscus Petrarcha;
modern Italian:
Francesco Petrarca [franˈtʃesko peˈtrarka])...
- 1313 – 21
December 1375) was an
Italian writer, poet,
correspondent of
Petrarch, and an
important Renaissance humanist. Born in the town of Certaldo, he...
-
Petrarch is a
crater on Mercury. This
crater is
located within the
distorted terrain on the
opposite side of the
planet from the
Caloris Basin. It was...
-
historiographical periodization originated in the 1330s with the
Italian scholar Petrarch, who
regarded the post-Roman
centuries as "dark"
compared to the "light"...
-
Africa is an epic poem in
Latin hexameters by the 14th-century
Italian poet
Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca). It
tells the
story of the
Second Punic War, in which...
- of
Petrarch's subjects starting with Romulus, the
mythological founder of Rome, and
going through Trajan. All of
these are
mentioned in
Petrarch's epic...
- The
sonnets of
Petrarch and
Shakespeare represent, in the
history of this
major poetic form, the two most
significant developments in
terms of technical...
- language. His work set a
precedent that
important Italian writers such as
Petrarch and
Boccaccio would later follow.
Dante was
instrumental in establishing...
- the
Italian poet
Francesco Petrarca,
although it was not
developed by
Petrarch himself, but
rather by a
string of
Renaissance poets.
Because of the structure...
-
antique m****cripts,
including Petrarch,
Giovanni Boccaccio,
Coluccio Salutati, and
Poggio Bracciolini. Of the four,
Petrarch was
dubbed the "Father of Humanism...
