Italy, Scholar July 20, 1304 – July, 19, 1374.
Francesco Petrarca commonly anglicized as Petrarch, was a scholar and poet of Renaissance Italy who was one of the earliest humanists. His rediscovery of Cicero's letters is often credited with initiating the 14th-century Renaissance.
Also known as Poet
The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them depends upon our own judgment.
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief...
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive...
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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