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BIRTH: July 20, 1304 DEATH: July 18, 1374 HOMETOWN: Arezzo, Italy GREATEST KNOWN FOR: Being a great poet FATHER: Pietro di Parenzo MOTHER: Eletta Canigiani EDUCATION: home schooled, later went to college at Unversity of Montpellier to study law CHURCH LIFE: Friend of the church
I seem to hear her, and not the branches and breeze, or the leaves and the birds, sounding in the glade, or the waters murmuring in the roots of grass.
Accomplishments: _ scholar & elegent poet _ Named Poet Laureate of Rome _ Crowned with laurel in the classical traditions _ Wrote hundreds of books, poems, and letters
This woman, Laura, was the woman that Francesco fell in love with and worte poems about.
FACTS: -Not only did Petrarch write in Italian ( his native language) he also wrote in Latin -Italian: wrote sonnets (14 line poem) -Latin: wrote letters to friends - One of the earliest and most influential humanists -Was a Boccaccio, poet, tale writer, pedant, and worldling
IMPACT ON HISTORY: - Inspired poets with his writings - Influenced writers with his piece called Canzoniere, which was a collection od poems expressing his love to a girl called Laura.
Francesco Petrarch
