Youth and early career
Petrarch was born in the Tuscan city of Arezzo on 20 July 1304. He was the son of Ser Petracco (a … 展开

Petrarch is very different from Dante and his Divina Commedia. In spite of the metaphysical subject, the Commedia is deeply rooted in the cultural and social milieu of turn-of-the-century Florence: Dante's rise to power (1300) and exile (1302); his political … 展开

Petrarch's influence is evident in the works of Serafino Ciminelli from Aquila (1466–1500) and in the works of Marin Držić (1508–1567) … 展开

• Africa, vol. 1–4, translated by Erik Z. D. Ellis (thesis; Baylor University, 2007).
• Bucolicum Carmen, translated by Thomas G. Bergin (Yale University Press, 1974). ISBN 展开

Petrarch is best known for his Italian poetry, notably the Rerum vulgarium fragmenta ("Fragments of Vernacular Matters"), a collection of 366 lyric poems in various genres also known as 'canzoniere' ('songbook'), and I trionfi ("The 展开

Petrarch is often referred to as the father of humanism and considered by many to be the "father of the Renaissance". In Secretum meum, he points out that secular achievements do … 展开

Petrarchism was a 16th-century literary movement of Petrarch's style by Italian, French, Spanish and English followers (partially coincident with Mannerism), who regarded his collection of poetry Il Canzoniere as a canonical text. Among them, the names are … 展开