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
From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world's well beaten ways.
The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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.
Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive...
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief...
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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