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Francis Petrarch was an Italian scholar and poet of the early Italian Renaissance, as well as one of the earliest Renaissance humanists.
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culture · Italian scholar and poet (1304–1374) · philosopher · poet · translator · lyricist · writer · mountaineer · autobiographer · philologist · humanist · Catholic clergyman · also Petrarch, Francesco Petrarch, Francesco Petrarca, Francesco Peetrarque, Francis Petrarch, Petrarque
Born 19 July 1304 · Died 18 July 1374 · Q1401
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This age of ours consequently has let fall, bit by bit, some of the richest and sweetest fruits that the tree of knowledge has yielded; has thrown away the results of the vigils and labours of the most illustrious men of genius, things of more value, I am almost tempted to say, than anything else in the whole world.
s refusal of the papacy in 1294 was a virtuous example of solitary life. Later the politician and thinker Leonardo Bruni (1370–1444) argued for the active life, or
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“This age of ours consequently has let fall, bit by bit, some of the richest and sweetest fruits that the tree of knowledge has yielded; has thrown away the results of the vigils and labours of the most illustrious men of genius, things of more value, I am almost tempted to say, than anything else in the whole world.”
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“s refusal of the papacy in 1294 was a virtuous example of solitary life. Later the politician and thinker Leonardo Bruni (1370–1444) argued for the active life, or”
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“In my younger days I struggled constantly with an overwhelming but pure love affair—my only one, and I would have struggled with it longer had not premature death, bitter but salutary for me, extinguished the cooling flames. I certainly wish I could say that I have always been entirely free from desires of the flesh, but I would be lying if I did”
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“Homer was dumb to him, while he was deaf to Homer”
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JSTOR Daily: Petrarch in Britain: Interpreters, Imitators, and Translators over 700 years
The Atlantic: Francis Petrarch, 1304-1904
Mail & Guardian: Petrarch: The poet who lost his head
Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho crafted a miniature for solo piccolo flute titled Dolce tormento, in which the flutist whispers fragments of Petrarch's Sonnet 132 into the instrument
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Los Angeles Times: Poet Petrarch to Be Exhumed
Modernist composer Elliott Carter completed his solo flute piece Scrivo in Vento which is in part inspired by and structured by Petrarch's Sonnet 212, Beato in sogno
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“Lifetime Speaker's Encyclopedia”
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By Professor Giovanni Canestrini, also of Padua University
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Died 1374-07-18.
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“It is better to will the good than to know the truth.”
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“Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.”
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“S’amor non è, che dunque è quel ch’io sento?Ma s’egli è amor, perdio, che cosa et quale?Se bona, onde l’effecto aspro mortale?Se ria, onde sí dolce ogni tormento? (wł.)”
“Coisa bela e mortal passa e não dura.”
“Błogosławiony dzień, miesiąc, rok, godzina, miejsce, chwila,gdy zostałem więźniem tych dwojga błyszczących oczu.”
“Błogosławiony rok ów, miesiąc, i niedziela,I dzień ów, i dnia cząstka, i owa godzina,I chwila, i to miejsce, gdzie moja dziewczynaUczucia mi natchnęła, choć ich nie podziela.”
“Tradução: "O valor tomará armas contra o furor/E que seja curto o combate!/Pois a coragem antiga ainda não morreu/No coração dos italianos.”
“Fu forse un tempo dolce cosa amore,non perch’i’sappia il quando: or è sí amara,che nulla piú; (wł.)”
“Pokoju nie znajduję, choć nie wszczynam wojny,boję się i mam nadzieję, płonę i jestem jak z lodu.”
“Widziałem tu na ziemi anielskie urokiI niebiańskie piękności (...).”
“Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.”
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“Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.”
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“Opis: podczas podróży do Rzymu w latach 60. XIV w., wspominając swój pierwszy pobyt w mieście w 1337. XIV-wieczny Rzym liczył zaledwie 17 tys. mieszkańców i do 1420 pozostawał kompletnie zrujnowany po okresie awiniońskiej niewoli papieży.”
“Books have led some to learning and others to madness, when they swallow more than they can digest.”
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“How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!”
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Awarded Poet's Crown in Rome (1341).
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Studied at University of Bologna (1320–1323).
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Studied at University of Montpellier (1316–1320).
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Born 1304-07-19.
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In my younger days I struggled constantly with an overwhelming but pure love affair—my only one, and I would have struggled with it longer had not premature death, bitter but salutary for me, extinguished the cooling flames. I certainly wish I could say that I have always been entirely free from desires of the flesh, but I would be lying if I did
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