Quote of the day
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
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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