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Francesco Petrarca

Born

in Arezzo, Italy

June 26, 1304

Died

July 03, 1374

Genre

Poetry

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Famous Italian poet, scholar, and humanist Francesco Petrarca, known in English as Petrarch, collected love lyrics in Canzoniere .

People often call Petrarch the earliest Renaissance "father of humanism". Based on Petrarch's works, and to a lesser extent those of Dante Alighieri and Giovanni Boccaccio, Pietro Bembo in the 16th century created the model for the modern Italian language, which the Accademia della Crusca later endorsed. People credit Petrarch with developing the sonnet. They admired and imitated his sonnets, a model for lyrical poems throughout Europe during the Renaissance. Petrarch called the Middle Ages the Dark Ages.
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Average rating: 3.92 · 7,022 ratings · 577 reviews · 1,147 distinct works • Similar authors

	Canzoniere 3.99 avg rating — 2,978 ratings — published 1372 — 485 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Canzoniere: Selected Poems by Francesco Petrarca, Anthony Mortimer (Translator, Introduction) 3.90 avg rating — 1,012 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Secret Book by Francesco Petrarca, J.G. Nichols (Translator), Germaine Greer (Foreword by) 3.93 avg rating — 527 ratings — published 1378 — 52 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Selections from the Canzoniere and Other Works by Francesco Petrarca, Mark Musa (Editor) 3.86 avg rating — 424 ratings — published 1374 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Petrarch's Lyric Poems: The Rime Sparse and Other Lyrics by Francesco Petrarca, Robert M. Durling (Editor) 4.08 avg rating — 315 ratings — published 1368 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Die Besteigung des Mont Ventoux 3.84 avg rating — 224 ratings — published 1336 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Songs & Sonnets of Laura's Lifetime 3.66 avg rating — 167 ratings — published 1955	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sonnets of Petrarch by Francesco Petrarca, Aldo Salvadori (Illustrator), Thomas G. Bergin (Editor) 4.01 avg rating — 127 ratings — published 1368 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Trionfi by Francesco Petrarca, Guido Bezzola (Editor) 3.73 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 1372 — 78 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Remedios para la vida by Francesco Petrarca, José María Micó (Translator) 3.84 avg rating — 76 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.”
― Francesco Petrarca

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“A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.”
― Francesco Petrarch

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“I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.”
― Francesco Petrarca, Canzoniere: Selected Poems

tags: fire, ice, love, passion

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