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	Francesco Petrarca
		Petrarch spent much of his early life in Avignon, was educated in Montpellier and Bologna, but returned to work in various clerical offices in Avignon when his father died in 1326.
		Petrarch's best work was inspired by young love — of an unidentified Laura, met in Avignon on 6th April 1327 and immortalised long after her death from plague in 1348.
		Petrarch introduced the catalogue of physical perfections and the extended metaphors that sees eyes as windows to the soul, etc., which feature so prominently in 300 years of Renaissance poetry, and which are only outdone (in range and ingenuity) by medieval Islamic poetry.
	www.poetry-portal.com /poets30.html (609 words)

	Francesco Petrarch
		Francesco Petrarca or Petrarch (1304 –; July 19, 1374) was an Italian scholar, poet, and early humanist.
		Petrarch spent much of his early life at Avignon and nearby Carpentras, where his family moved to follow Pope Clement V who moved there in 1309 during the papal schism.
		Petrarch was a highly introspective man, and many of his own internal conflicts, such as the relative place of the active life and the contemplative life, would be seized upon by Renaissance humanist philosophers and argued continually for the next two hundred years.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/LX/Petrarch.html (1243 words)

	Petrarch - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		PETRARCH [Petrarch] or Francesco Petrarca, 1304-74, Italian poet and humanist, one of the great figures of Italian literature.
		In 1348 both Laura and Colonna died of the plague, and in the next years Petrarch devoted himself to the cause of Italian unification, pleaded for the return of the papacy to Rome, and served the Visconti of Milan.
		Petrarch had less pride in the "vulgar tongue" than in Latin, which he had mastered as a living language.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-petrarch.html (577 words)

	Petrarch's On the Solitary Life - Articles - House of Solitude - Hermitary
		Petrarch composed the work in 1346 but took twenty years to deliver it to the bishop of Cavaillon to whom it was dedicated.
		Petrarch's purpose in the De Vita Solitaria is to celebrate the beauty of a life of leisure, retired from crowded haunts and importunate cares and devoted to the enjoyment of reading, of literary creation, peaceful brooding, and the society of a few chosen friends.
		Petrarch rejects the medieval attempt to balance or reconcile the active and the contemplative.
	www.hermitary.com /solitude/petrarch.html (1796 words)

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		Francesco Petrarch was born into a prosperous, if not rich family, in the small Italian city-state of Arezzo, and eventually the family moved to Carpentras, near Avignon.
		However, Francesco Petrarch does not evaluate other's actions from the point of arrogance, but rather from the plain of moral equality and empathy; during his life Petrarch had often fallen into similar sins: he had an illegitimate son, he squandered his father's inheritance, and he constantly had to wrestle with his pride.
		Francesco Petrarch had once openly confessed his pride and ambition to an imaginary St. Augustine how greater his pride may have been had he lived to realize that others using his thoughts would one day change the course of the Western world.
	www.pcpros.net /~dratuwsp/PetrarchPaper.doc (2084 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Francesco Petrarch
		Francesco's earliest years were spent chiefly at Incisa in the ancestral district of the Valdarno.
		Francesco disliked the career chosen for him, and devoted himself as much as possible to belles-lettres, thereby so incensing his father that, upon one occasion, the latter burned a number of his favourite ancient authors.
		In spite of the magnitude of Petrarch's composition in Latin and the stress which he put upon it himself, his abiding fame is based upon his Italian verse, and this forms two notable compilations, the "Trionfi" and the "Canzoniere".
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/11778a.htm (1161 words)

	Petrarch
		Francis Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) was born in Arezzo as the son of a notary, but he spend his early childhood in a village near Florence.
		Petrarch was regarded as the greatest scholar of his age, who combined interest in classical culture and Christianity and left deep influence on literature throughout Western Europe.
		Petrarch was known as a devoted student of antiquity, who had a passion for finding and commenting on the works of the ancients.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /petrarca.htm (1140 words)

	Middle Ages :: Petrarch
		Francesco Petrarch was born in Arezzo the son of a notary, and spent his early childhood in the village of Incisa, near Florence.
		As a scholar and poet, Petrarch soon grew famous, and in 1341 he was crowned as a poet laureate in Rome.
		Petrarch never married, but he did father three children by a woman or women unknown to posterity.
	www.themiddleages.net /people/petrarch.html (742 words)

	Francesco Petrarch: All You Need Is Love (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Born 6 years after Petrarch in 1310 in Avignon she was the daughter of Audibert de Noves (a Knight) and wife to Hugues II de Sade (and possibly the ancestor of the infamous Marquis de Sade).
		She married at the age of 15 (January 16th, 1325) and Petrarch saw her for the first time two years later on April 6th (Good Friday) in 1327 at Easter mass in the church of Sainte-Claire d'Avignon.
		Inside was a medal representing a woman ripping at her heart, and under that, a sonnet by Petrarch.
	www.ega.edu /facweb/perkowski/petrarch/petrarch.htm (522 words)

	Italian Literature - Petrarca - Petrarch
		Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374) was one of the great poets of Italian Literature.
		It was then that Petrarch devoted his life to the Italian unification and the return of the papacy to Rome.
		Petrarch came to rest in Padua in 1367, where he spent his remaining years in religious contemplation.
	www.lifeinitaly.com /culture/petrarch.asp (525 words)

	Petrarch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Francesco Petrarch was born in Arezzo, Italy in 1304.
		Petrarch spent a lot of his childhood in Avignon, France, and later on, he came back to France to stay.
		Petrarch believed that Europe 's problems could be solved by looking at the works of Ancient Greece and Rome.
	lakesideschool.org /studentweb/worldhistory/renaissance/Petrarch.htm (767 words)

	Francesco Petrarch - Father of Humanism
		Petrarch wrote his own letter to posterity and is available here or from the his writings menu it describes in detail his life and how he saw himself and is perhaps the best answer to who he was, but if you were to ask me, this is what I would say:
		Francesco Petrarch was born shortly after 1300 in a time and place where very few could read or write and those that did considered it a chore where as Petrarch saw a blessing.
		Petrarch lived through the harshest bouts of the plague and lost nearly everyone he knew to it.
	petrarch.petersadlon.com /petrarch.html (390 words)

	Petrarch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Petrarch claimed that on April 26, 1336, with his brother and two servants, he climbed to the top of Mont Ventoux (1,909 m; 6,263 ft).
		Therefore April 26, 1336 is regarded as the "birthday of alpinism", and Petrarch as the "father of alpinism".
		Petrarch is traditionally called the father of the Renaissance, he inspired humanist philosophy which led to the intellectual flowering of the Renaissance.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Petrarch (1552 words)

	Petrarch, Poet - Timeline Index
		Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca), Italian scholar, poet, and humanist, a major force in the development of the Renaissance, famous for his poems addressed to Laura, an idealized beloved whom he met in 1327 and who died in 1348.
		Petrarch was regarded as the greatest scholar of his age.
		Petrarch was known as a devoted student of antiquity.
	www.timelineindex.com /content/view/968 (330 words)

	Petrarch
		Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374 CE) was born at Aresso in Tuscanny.
		Petrarch revived, after a lapse of 1,000 years, recognition that a poet and intellectual was an important member of society.
		Petrarch was understandably outraged by the neglect and misuse of ancient manuscripts.
	www.humanistictexts.org /petrarch.htm (5052 words)

	123Student
		Petrarch at the time thought nothing of that, but shortly in writings to an unknown person his feelings had changed to those of his friends.
		During this time Petrarch did not ask for anything of himself but asked that many petitions from his friends, including Nelli, be signed. Shortly after the visit from a Genoese envoy came to Milan asking for them to take the lordship.
		Francesco Petrarch, was regarded amongst his peers and superiors as a powerful man. After having been sent on many missions of peace by the Archbishop.
	www.123student.com /biographies/268.shtml (1889 words)

	Francesco Petrarch Biography
		The Italian poet Petrarch is considered the founder of humanism, a movement devoted to the revival of ancient Greek and Roman literature and philosophy.
		Conscious of the fleeting nature of human existence, Petrarch felt his mission was to save works by classical authors for future generations.
		Petrarch's personal letters mark a distinct break with medieval traditions and a return to the classical and early Christian practice of...
	history.enotes.com /renaissance-reformation-biographies/petrarch-francesco (180 words)

	Petrach, Francesco
		Francis Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) was born in Arezzo on July 20, 1304, firstborn of Pietro di Parenzo di Garzo, «Ser Petracco dell'Incisa» (today Incisa in Val d'Arno near Florence), and Eletta Canigiani; Ser Petracco, a notary linked to Dante for political reasons, had been banished from Florence in 1302.
		A son, Giovanni, was born in Avignon in 1337 and a daughter, Francesca, was born in Vaucluse in 1343, from an unknown woman.
		At that time, the plague was raging in Europe and Petrarch learned of the deaths of several friends, one of whom was Laura, who died on April 6, 1348 at the same hour they had met.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/P/petrarchfrancesco/1.html (900 words)

	The Richard Vallance Sonnet Review, December 2001
		Francesco Petrarch, whose name in Italian is Francesco Petrarca, was born on July 20th., 1304, in Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy, and died the night of July 18th./19th., 1374, at Arquà, near Padua, Carrara.
		Petrarch was instrumental in giving birth to the "renasciamento" or "Renaissance" in Fourteenth Century Italy, long before it was to flourish in 16th.
		Petrarch himself had been an accomplished musician, playing the lyre consummately, and was an exquisite singer, according to literary reports of his own contemporaries.
	www.poetrylifeandtimes.com /valrevw4.html (2667 words)

	Francesco Petrarch
		Born of an exiled Florentine family in 1304, Petrarch was urged by his bourgeois father to study law.
		Petrarch came upon the works of Cicero in the course of his reading and was led to a passion for all the classics.
		His irrepressible pursuit of fame culminated in a spectacular ceremony in Rome in 1341, and he was crowned with a laurel wreath as the foremost poet and scholar of his time and thus becoming the first poet laureate of modern times.
	latter-rain.com /eccle/petrarch.htm (3694 words)

	MOTWM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Petrarch and Boccaccio spent many hours discussing their famous predecessor and although Boccaccio never seemed to resent the unassailable fame of Dante, Petrarch was annoyed by the idea that the greatest Italian poet was named Dante and not Petrarch.
		In 1312, Petrarch's father took the family to France to live in the city of Avignon where the Papal court was located temporarily (temporarily for about sixty years!) while French popes dallied in the Provence sun and delayed their return to Rome.
		It gave him a whole new culture, a new language, to add to his native Tuscan roots and this cultural melting pot produced a complex and tension-filled set of loyalties that ultimately provided him with insights that were at the heart of his totally unique cultural vision that he formed in his writings.
	www.westernmind.com /petrarch/petrarchbio.shtml (1713 words)

	Columbian College Celebrates Petrarch’s Message to Posterity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Noted medieval Italian literature scholar Giuseppe Velli visited GW to deliver a lecture in honor of the 700th anniversary of the birth of Italian poet Francesco Petrarch, April 22.
		The address, “Petrarch’s Message to Posterity,” was sponsored by GW’s Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences in collaboration with The Istituto Italiano di Cultura.
		“Petrarch was one of the first to have the feeling that the past is far away,” said Velli.
	www.gwu.edu /~bygeorge/051204/petrarch.html (255 words)

	Headlines@Hopkins: Johns Hopkins University News Releases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Prosperetti is an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and recently received her doctorate from the History of Art Department at Johns Hopkins.
		The symposium's organizers say that Petrarch is best known for his Canzoniere, or the Songbook, that for centuries has stood as a model for fledgling poets in the Western World.
		"Petrarch and the Arts" is presented by the departments of Romance Languages and Literatures and the History of Art at The Johns Hopkins University, along with the Peabody Conservatory and the university's Sheridan Libraries.
	www.jhu.edu /news_info/news/home04/jun04/petrarch.html (392 words)

	Petrarch at 700
		Petrarch became one of them while he was still alive.
		The work, although it is found in numerous early editions of Petrarch, is now thought to derive largely from a text by Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464).
		Letter to his brother Gerardo [Epistolae familiares, 10:3] in a Miscellany [Jacobus de Cessolis, Ludus Schaccorum; Pseudo-Seneca, De Remediis Fortuitorum Liber; Cronica Gestorum a Cesare Et Pompeio; Psuedo-Isidorus, Ymago Mundi; Francesco Petrarch, RVF 366 "Vergine Bella" (and other poems from the Canzoniere); M. Bono Da Lucca, Computus Lunaris; (and additional texts, in Latin and Italian)].
	www.library.upenn.edu /exhibits/rbm/petrarch/petrarch_manuscript.html (1029 words)

	Francesco Petraca (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Petrarch, says Mr.Bishop, 'stood between two worlds, the medieval and the modern....
		Mr.Bishop tells us a great deal about the world in which Petrarch lived; about his versatility -- as a traveller, about his opinions on generalship, geography, education, music, gardening.
		Scholar, poet, man of the world, Petrarch did much to form modern sensibility, heightening man's appreciation of natural beauty and teaching them a new refinement of self-scrutiny.
	www.eurekaeditions.com /pet.htm (163 words)

	Petrarch - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Petrarch (1304-1374), Italian poet and humanist, who is considered the first modern poet.
		The humanist movement started in Italy, where the late medieval Italian writers Dante, Giovanni Boccaccio, and Francesco Petrarch contributed greatly...
		One of the most important figures of the early Renaissance was the humanist scholar and poet Petrarch.
	encarta.msn.com /Petrarch.html (84 words)

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