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anglicized as
Petrarch (/ˈpiːtrɑːrk, ˈpɛt-/), was a
scholar and poet of the
early Italian Renaissance, and one of the
earliest humanists.
Petrarch's rediscovery...
- 1313 – 21
December 1375) was an
Italian writer, poet,
correspondent of
Petrarch, and an
important Renaissance humanist. Born in the town of Certaldo, he...
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historiographical periodization originated in the 1330s with the
Italian scholar Petrarch, who
regarded the post-Roman
centuries as "dark"
compared to the "light"...
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Petrarch is a
crater on Mercury. This
crater is
located within the
distorted terrain on the
opposite side of the
planet from the
Caloris Basin. It was...
- The
sonnets of
Petrarch and
Shakespeare represent, in the
history of this
major poetic form, the two most
significant developments in
terms of technical...
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Africa is an epic poem in
Latin hexameters by the 14th
century Italian poet
Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca). It
tells the
story of the
Second Punic War, in which...
- centuries. His work set a
precedent that
important Italian writers such as
Petrarch and
Boccaccio would later follow.
Dante was
instrumental in establishing...
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learning based on
classical sources,
which contemporaries credited to
Petrarch; the
development of
linear perspective and
other techniques of rendering...
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Petrarch (foaled 1873) was a
British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire who won two
British classic Races in 1876. In a
career that
lasted from
October 1875...
- and prose-writers: Dante,
Petrarch, Boccaccio; and is said to have had a
personal contact interview with one of these,
Petrarch." Hendrickson, pp. 183–92...