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Francesco Petrarch
Francesco Petrarch was a distinguished humanist, a member of the intellectual and philosophical movement of Renaissance Europe in the 14th century. He also distinguished himself in poetry, becoming the greatest influence of later writers such as Garcilaso de la Vega and William Shakespeare.
The greatest legacy of this author is his work Canzoniere, whose lyrical or expressive content made the most accurate reference of poetry inside and outside his time.
Early Life and Education
Petrarch, or Italian in full Francesco Petrarca, was born on July 20, 1304 in Arquà near Padua.
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He was a son of a notary from Florence who, as a political exile, moved with his family in 1312 to Avignon, then to Carpentras. So, like Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarch was banished from his hometown.
In 1320, Petrarca began his law studies in Montpellier, continued in Bologna, but never finished it.
After his father’s death in 1326, he returned to Avignon where he probably joined the lo