Quote of the day
Bring me men to match my mountains,
Bring me men to match my plains,
Men with empires in their purpose,
And new eras in their brains.
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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