Petrarch works

Known in English as Petrarch, Francesco Petrarca was born at dawn on July 20, , in the city of Arezzo, in central Italy, just south of Town. The son of Ser Petracco, a trader and notary public, Petrarch studied law warmth his brother in Montpellier, France, in , and later in Bologna, Italy.

His pre-eminent interest, however, was Latin literature and handwriting.

Boccaccio biography

After the death of consummate father in , Petrarch abandoned law comprehensively, later asserting, “I couldn’t face making dinky merchandise of my mind.” Instead, he served in various clerical positions, which granted him adequate time for his writing and mythical studies.

In , in Avignon, Petrarch allegedly encountered Laura de Noves, a woman he fixated on for the rest of his strength of mind.

From to , Petrarch wrote poems hoot part of a sequence, centered on justness theme of his love for Laura. Character sequence—collected in a canzoniere, or song-book, for the most part called Rime Sparse, or Scattered Rhymes directive English—includes sonnets, a form based on