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Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374)

Background Francesco Petrarch was born to Eletta and Ser Patracco in Arezzo, Grew up in Carpentras shortly after 1300 in a time and place where very few could read or write and those that did considered it a chore where as Petrarch saw a blessing. His passion to write his thoughts to paper was only overcome by the need to sleep or eat. Childhood Petrarch spent his early childhood in the village of Incisa, near Florence. He spent much of his early life at Avignon and nearby Carpentras, where his family moved to follow Pope Clement V who moved there in 1309 to begin the Avignon Papacy. He studied law at the University of Montpellier (1316–20) and Bologna (1320–23) with a lifelong friend and schoolmate called Guido Sette. Education He went to the University of Montpellier and then to the University of Bolognato study law. Because his father was in the profession of law he insisted that Petrarch and his brother study law also. Career While still young, Petrarch became well known as a poet and as a scholar. About 1330 the poet began a period of restless wandering, and in 1333 he made a journey through northern France and through Germany, recording his observations and experiences in his letters. Back at Avignon for a while, and now invested with a canonical benefice, he set forth for Italy, in 1336, in the company of some members of the Colonna family, with which he had been closely allied for some time past, and in January, 1337, he entered Rome for the first time Jobs He was interested in literature, writing ,latin and spent considerable hours studying the works of the classical writers. Petrarch’s talented hands gave birth to several literary works, which are now considered as masterpieces. His works based on classical culture and Christianity influenced many in Western Europe. Achievements Deemed as the father of "Renaissance Humanism", Petrarchan Sonnet,Although his favorite language was Latin, his sonnets and canzoni were composed in Italian. Petrarch had a thing for the antiquity and put in deliberate efforts to learn more about ancient works. INFLUENCE ON THE WORLD He influenced a lot of poets