Quote of the day
But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies of Bravery, in the infamy of his nature. Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible Sun within us.
Petrarch
Born: July 20, 1304
Died: July 19, 1374 (aged 69)
Bio: Francesco Petrarca, commonly anglicized as Petrarch, was an Italian scholar and poet in Renaissance Italy, and one of the earliest humanists. Petrarch's rediscovery of Cicero's letters is often credited for initiating the 14th-century Renaissance.
Known for:
- Il Canzoniere (1336)
- Secretum (1347)
- I Trionfi (1351)
- De vita solitaria
- De remediis utriusque fortunae
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