Wednesday, October 28, 2015

petrarch




Born: July 20, 1304, Arezzo, Italy

Died: July 19, 1374, Arquà Petrarca, Italy

Scholar, poet

Traveled through Europe 1327-1336
Given the title of Poet Laureate in 1340
 he Founded philology, the systematic and scientific study of all literary and linguistic phenomena
they say Petrarch had a deep understanding of what ancient Latin and Greek literature
he had the characteristic of a Christian 

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