petrarch in A Sentence

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    The Republic by Petrarch.

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    Strongly influenced by Petrarch was the younger Giovanni Boccaccio.

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    In his"Epistulae," Petrarch's humanistic attitude is shown in full.

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    The real humanism began around the middle of the 14th century with Petrarch.

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    Petrarch however was interested in writing and Latin literature and considered these seven years wasted.

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    Petrarch himself turned again and again in his writings to the flaws of humanity.

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    Petrarch however, was primarily interested in writing and Latin literature and considered these seven years wasted.

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    Therefore, in 1347 Petrarch supported with enthusiasm the coup of the Cola di Rienzoin Rome.

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    It was initially intended to house the precious manuscripts left to the Republic by Petrarch and Bessarione(1468);

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    After his father's death, in 1326, Petrarch was free to abandon his law studies and pursue.

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    After his father's death, in 1326, Petrarch was free to abandon his law studies and pursue his own interests.

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    Because his father was in the legal profession(a notary), he insisted that Petrarch and his brother study law also.

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    Because his father was in the legal profession a, he insisted that Petrarch and his brother study law also.

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    Because his father was in the profession of law he insisted that Petrarch and his brother study law also.

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    According to Petrarch, what was needed to remedy this situation was the careful study and imitation of the great classical authors.

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    Petrarch's first studies were at Carpentras, France, and at his father's insistence he was sent to study law at Montpellier, France(1316).

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    Petrarch's father, a lawyer, had been obliged to leave Florence in 1302 and had moved to Arezzo, where Petrarch was born.

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    In 1341, Rome reintroduced the old Roman tradition of the crowning of the"poeta laurentis"(poet laureate), in order to appropriately honor Petrarch.

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    Petrarch enjoyed life in Avignon, and there is a famous description of him and his brother as dandies in its polished courtly world;

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    Though he felt that he lived"amid varied and confusing storms," Petrarch believed that humanity could once more reach the heights of past accomplishments.

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    Nevertheless, the term'Middle Ages', used by Biondo and other early humanists after Petrarch, was in general use before the 18th century to denote the period before the Renaissance.

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    Petrarch's earliest surviving poems, on the death of his mother, date from the Montpellier and Bologna period, though like all Petrarch's work they were heavily revised later.

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    In one respect, this negated the religious aspect of Petrarch's judgment, since these later centuries were those when the power and prestige of the Church were at their height.

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    In spite of this, the term“Middle Ages”, used by Biondo and other early humanists after Petrarch, was the name in general use before the 18th century to denote the period until the Renaissance.

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    Moreover, Petrarch's metaphor of darkness, which he used chiefly to deplore what he saw as a lack of secular achievements, was sharpened so as to take on a more explicitly anti-religious connotation.

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    In spite of this, the term"Middle" Ages, used by Biondo and other early humanists after Petrarch, was the name in general use before the 18th century to denote the period up until the Renaissance.

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    Although political dreams and utopias failed because of power relations and Cola's lack of realism, the cultural side of the renewal movement, which was represented by the more politically cautious Petrarch, prevailed over the long term.

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    While Petrarch's concept of a Dark Age corresponded to a mostly Christian period following pre-Christian Rome, today the term mainly applies to the cultures and periods in Europe that were least Christianized, and thus most sparsely covered by chronicles and other contemporary sources, at the time mostly written by Catholic clergy.

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