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Biography

Name: Petrarch
Variant Name: Francesco Petrarca
Birth Date: July 20, 1304
Death Date: July, 1374
Place of Birth: Arezzo, Italy
Place of Death: Padua, Italy
Nationality: Italian
Gender: Male
Occupations: poet

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Biography of Petrarch
1,894 words, approx. 6 pages
The Italian poet Petrarch (1304-1374), or Francesco Petrarca, is best known for the Iyric poetry of his Canzoniere and is considered one of the greatest love poets of world literature. A scholar of classical antiquity, he was the founder of humanism....


Quotations
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Petrarch Quotes
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Francesco Petrarca or Petrarch ( July 20 , 1304 – July 19 , 1374 ) was an Italian scholar, poet, and early humanist. Petrarch and Dante are considered the fathers of the Renaissance. Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 To Laura in Life 2 Unsourced 3 External...


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Petrarch (1304–1374) Summary
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Petrarch(1304–1374) Petrarch, or Francesco Petrarca, the Italian humanist, poet, and scholar, was born in Arezzo into an exiled Florentine family. He was taken to Avignon in 1312, and there he spent most of his life until 1353, except for a...
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Petrarch Information
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Francesco Petrarca (July 20, 1304 – July 19, 1374), known in English as Petrarch, was an Italian scholar, poet, and one of the earliest Renaissance humanists. Petrarch is often popularly called the "father of humanism".[1] Based on Petrarch's works,...


News and Journals
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Renaissance Quarterly
Authorizing Petrarch.(Review)
06/22/1999: 672 words, approx. 2 pages
William J. Kennedy, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1994. 301 pp. $36.50. ISBN: 0-8014-2947-9. Authorizing Petrarch offers a remarkably erudite study of Petrarch's complex interpretive legacy. This book explores the intersection between Petrarch's Rime sparse and a vast array of Renaissance...
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Renaissance Quarterly
The Worlds of Petrarch. (book reviews)
09/22/1997: 787 words, approx. 3 pages
Formulator of a modern mode of thinking while still rooted in the medieval world he was transforming, Petrarch is one of the most elusive and complex personalities of European intellectual history. The multifaceted and forever contradictory writings of Petrarch have been the subject...
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The New York Observer
Nabokov\'d5s Laura Is Saved From Burning; Who Was This Woman?
12/11/2005: 2,957 words, approx. 10 pages
Breathe easy: I think it’s safe to say without much exaggeration (and only an understandable modicum of self-congratulation) that The Observer has saved Laura. Saved the last, incomplete, unseen Vladimir Nabokov manuscript from a threat of destruction. In a convoluted way, my plea to Dmitri...
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The New York Observer
Nabokov's Laura Is Saved From Burning; Who Was This Woman?
12/11/2005: 2,961 words, approx. 10 pages
Breathe easy: I think it’s safe to say without much exaggeration (and only an understandable modicum of self-congratulation) that The Observer has saved Laura. Saved the last, incomplete, unseen Vladimir Nabokov manuscript from a threat of destruction. In a convoluted way, my plea to...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Mariann Sanders Regan
14,232 words, approx. 47 pages
In the following excerpt, Regan focuses on themes of love and self-examination in her reading of the Rime sparse.
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Critical Essay by Littell's Living Age
13,489 words, approx. 45 pages
In the review below, the anonymous critic remarks on Henry Reeve's Petrarch (1878) and discusses Petrarch's contribution to the Italian Renaissance as a humanist and poetic stylist.
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Critical Essay by Robert M. Durling
12,817 words, approx. 43 pages
In the essay below, Durling provides a thematic and stylistic analysis of the Rime sparse.
 
Featured Essays
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Essay Grade: 98%
Petrarch: the Father of the Renaissance
2,186 words, approx. 7 pages
This essay argues that although others have been called the leader of the renaissance in Italy, I argue that Petrarch was truely the father of the Italian renaissance.
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Essay Grade: 83%
Petrarch Explores Deeper Issues of Love, Lust & Morality"
1,680 words, approx. 6 pages
"Whilst Petrarch's sonnets represent the idealised female form, they simultaneously explore deeper issues of love, lust and morality." Petrarch's Sonnet 3, Sonnet 189, and Sonnet 190 best represent these ideas, through Petrarch's expressions of his feelings toward Laura.
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Humanism and Petrarch
405 words, approx. 1 pages
Two of Francesco Petrarch's works, Secretum, or "My Secret," and De Vita Solitaria, or "Solitary Life," share the common theme of humanism.


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