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Francis Petrarch (/ˈpɛtrɑːrk, ˈpiːt-/; 20 July 1304 – 19 July 1374; Latin:
Franciscus Petrarcha;
modern Italian:
Francesco Petrarca [franˈtʃesko peˈtrarka])...
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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...
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historiographical periodization originated in the 1330s with the
Italian scholar Petrarch, who
regarded the post-Roman
centuries as "dark"
compared to the "light"...
- 1313 – 21
December 1375) was an
Italian writer, poet,
correspondent of
Petrarch, and an
important Renaissance humanist. Born in the town of Certaldo, he...
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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...
- language. His work set a
precedent that
important Italian writers such as
Petrarch and
Boccaccio would later follow.
Dante was
instrumental in establishing...
- many
people died. —
Petrarch,
Chronica de le Vite de
Pontefici et
Imperadori Romani However the
attribution of this work to
Petrarch may be incorrect. From...
- He is
regarded as
ancient Rome's
greatest scholar, and was
described by
Petrarch as "the
third great light of Rome" (after
Virgil and Cicero). He is sometimes...
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between Italian and Latin, even into the
beginning of the Renaissance.
Petrarch for
example saw
Latin as a
literary version of the
spoken language. Medieval...
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Epistolae familiares is the
title of a
collection of
letters of
Petrarch which he
edited during his lifetime. He
originally called the
collection Epistolarum...
