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    Petrarch (redirect from Francesco Petrarca)
    Latin: Franciscus Petrarcha; modern Italian: Francesco Petrarca [franˈtʃesko peˈtrarka]), born Francesco di Petracco, was a scholar and poet of the early...
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  • known as the Italian sonnet, is a sonnet named after the Italian poet Francesco Petrarca, although it was not developed by Petrarch himself, but rather by...
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    Nice, thus leaving Nice still in the geographic region of Italy (as Francesco Petrarca already claimed in 1331). However, there is an opposite thesis, supported...
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  • Gregorian calendar; 249 days remain until the end of the year. 1336 – Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ascends Mont Ventoux. 1478 – The Pazzi family attack on...
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    Heritage Sites list. Arquà is the place where the poet Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) lived the final four years of his life (1370–74). In 1870, the town...
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    poem in Latin hexameters by the 14th century Italian poet Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca). It tells the story of the Second Punic War, in which the Carthaginian...
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    ('She gathers the fairest flower'), a famous line by the Italian poet Francesco Petrarca. In 1612, the Accademia published the first edition of its dictionary...
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    Francesco I da Carrara (29 September 1325, in Monza – 6 October 1393, in Padua), called il Vecchio, was Lord of Padua from 1350 to 1388. The son of the...
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    for special events and occasions. Albertino Mussato of Padua and Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) of Arezzo were the first to be crowned poets laureate after...
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  • Seminara (c. 1290-1348) (Italian) Leontius Pilatus (?-1364/1366) (Greek) Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374) (Italian) Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375) (Italian) Simon...
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    Poets (1544). From left to right: Cristoforo Landino, Marsilio Ficino, Francesco Petrarca, Giovanni Boccaccio, Dante Alighieri, and Guido Cavalcanti....
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    Sadlon, Peter (September 10, 2007). "Trionfi (English translation)". Francesco Petrarca & Laura de Noves. Retrieved June 11, 2019. For a woman he would never...
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    Britannica. Vol. 5 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 898–899. Francesco Petrarca Epistolae familiares X.1, XII.1, XVIII.1; See also: E.H. Wilkins Life...
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    served as a private residence rather than a stronghold. The poet Francesco Petrarca spent some time there, when Gian Galeazzo Visconti called him to take...
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    March 1514. Libelli Portatiles Le cose volgari de Messer Francesco Petrarcha, Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch), July 1501. Opera, Catullus, Tibullus, and Propertius...
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    style and form prescribed by Renaissance Italian poet Petrarch (or Francesco Petrarca) (1304–1374) in which the sonnet consisted of two quatrains (four-line...
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  • Petrarch or Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374) was an Italian scholar, poet, and Renaissance humanist. Petrarca may also refer to: 12722 Petrarca, a minor planet...
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    Letters, XIII, 4 and XXIII, 19. Armando Petrucci, La scrittura di Francesco Petrarca, Città del Vaticano: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 1967, noted in...
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  • remains of Francesco Petrarca, known as Petrarch, were tested for DNA in 2003. Another analysis revealed that purported skull of Petrarca belonged to...
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    Encyclopedia of World Literature ¹apage 774 Plato (c.427–348 BC) ²apage 779 Francesco Petrarca ³apage 770 Charles Sanders Peirce ¹bpage 849 the Renaissance This...
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    biographies, written in Latin, by the 14th-century Italian author Francesco Petrarca. These biographies are a set of Lives similar in idea to Plutarch's...
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    capital to Ferrara. Arquà Petrarca : this village on the Euganean hills features the tomb and house of Francesco Petrarca, one of the most important...
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  • was first introduced by the Stil Novo poets, and later developed by Francesco Petrarca.The two main concepts (introspection and love) are thus brought together...
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    and for native art there was the school of Francesco Squarcione, whence issued Mantegna. Francesco Petrarca (commonly anglicized as Petrarch, 20 July 1304...
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  • notation. The manuscript is from several lyricists, mostly unknown. Francesco Petrarca has sung his beloved Laura in 366 poems, collected in "Canzonière"...
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    la Mare, The handwriting of Italian humanists / Vol. I, fasc. 1, Francesco Petrarca, Giovanni Boccaccio, Coluccio Salutati, Niccolò Niccoli, Poggio Bracciolini...
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    in 1320. In the fourteenth century, they were very common objects: Francesco Petrarca says in one of his letters that, until he was 60, he did not need...
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    populi libri (published from 1416 to 1449), and the scholarly works of Francesco Petrarca, with Giovanni Villani's Istorie fiorentine being a precursor to humanistic...
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    most popular literary selections were the works of Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarca, and Giovanni Boccaccio: the "Three Crowns" of the Florentine vernacular...
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    Saliceto 14th century Manuel Chrysoloras Giovanni de' Marignolli Francesco Petrarca (also known as Petrarch) Coluccio Salutati 15th century Leon Battista...
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