Quote of the day
I wish my deadly foe, no worse
Than want of friends, and empty purse.
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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