![]() ![]() ![]() After the birth of the first of two illegitimate children in 1337, he retired to the solitude of Vaucluse near Avignon, where, until 1349, he stayed several times between his many travels. Laura, probably born de Noves, married de Sade, was the mythical love of his life which he sang in love poetry.įrom 1330 he was in the service of Cardinal Colonna and traveled to Italy and other European countries. There, as he himself testified, on Good Friday on April 6, 1327, he saw Laura in the church of St. After his father’s death in 1326, he returned to Avignon where he probably joined the lower church orders. In 1320, Petrarca began his law studies in Montpellier, continued in Bologna, but never finished it. So, like Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarch was banished from his hometown. 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. Petrarch, or Italian in full Francesco Petrarca, was born on Jin Arquà near Padua. 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. He also distinguished himself in poetry, becoming the greatest influence of later writers such as Garcilaso de la Vega and William Shakespeare. Francesco Petrarch was a distinguished humanist, a member of the intellectual and philosophical movement of Renaissance Europe in the 14th century. ![]()
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