Petrarch, italian scholar, poet, and humanist whose poems addressed to laura, an idealized beloved, contributed to the renaissance flowering of lyric poetry He was regarded as the greatest scholar of his age. Petrarch was a poet and scholar whose humanist philosophy set the stage for the renaissance He is also considered one of the fathers of the modern italian language. Petrarch was inventing the discipline of philology, a process involving stripping a text of its medieval allegorical readings and searching for an exemplar as close as possible to the original. In the years after his coronation, petrarch traveled around france, germany and spain holding various clerical positions, researching the writings of cicero, and exploring greek history and literature.
Έργα του Πετράρχη από το Project Gutenberg Roderick Conway Morris (29 Μαΐου 2004). «Petrarch, the first humanist». International Herald Tribune. Αρχειοθετήθηκε από το πρωτότυπο στις 29 Σεπτεμβρίου 2008. Ανακτήθηκε στις 16 Φεβρουαρίου 2009. Petrarch is best known for his italian poetry Notably the canzoniere and the trionfi (triumphs) However, petrarch was an enthusiastic latin scholar who did most of his writing in this language. Boccaccio employed petrarch’s own device of allegory and upbraided sylvanus (petrarch) for betraying amaryllis (italy) and aiding the oppressor, egon (visconti), the false priest of pan, a monster of treachery and crime. Francesco petrarca, or petrarch, was born in arezzo, italy in 1304
