{"slug": "petrarch", "label": "Petrarch", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrarch", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1401", "qid": "Q1401", "description": "Italian scholar and poet (1304-1374)", "entries": 8, "years": 8, "span": [1304, 1374], "span_label": ["1304 CE", "1374 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 2}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 2}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Science & Discovery", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "italy", "label": "Italy", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "avignon", "label": "Avignon", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "church-building", "label": "Church (building)", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1304, "year_label": "1304 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "July 20", "text": "July 20 – Francesco Petrarca, Italian historian and poet (d. 1374)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361428823#Births", "title": "1304", "revid": 1361428823, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1327, "year_label": "1327 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "April 6", "text": "April 6 (Good Friday) – Francesco Petrarca, Italian scholar and poet, sees a woman he names Laura (possibly Laura de Noves) in the church of Sainte-Claire d'Avignon, which awakes in him a lasting passion. He writes a series of sonnets and other poems in Italian dedicated to her, which are collected into Il Canzoniere, an influential model for Renaissance culture.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367267747#April_–_June", "title": "1327", "revid": 1367267747, "section": "Events › April – June"}}, {"year": 1336, "year_label": "1336 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "April 26", "text": "April 26 – The Ascent of Mount Ventoux is made by the Italian poet Petrarch: he claims to be the first since classical antiquity to climb a mountain for the view.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367230650#Events", "title": "1336", "revid": 1367230650, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1337, "year_label": "1337 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": null, "text": "Petrarch, \"father\" of Renaissance humanism, first visits Rome to wander its mysterious ruins, with an eye for aesthetics as well as for history, exciting a renewed interest in Classical civilisation.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359629159#Date_unknown", "title": "1337", "revid": 1359629159, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1341, "year_label": "1341 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "April 8", "text": "April 8 – Petrarch is crowned poet laureate in Rome, the first man since antiquity to be given this honor.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369561422#Events", "title": "1341", "revid": 1369561422, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1348, "year_label": "1348 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Laura de Noves, French countess, presumed beloved of Petrarch (b. 1310)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1320392432#Deaths", "title": "1348", "revid": 1320392432, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1368, "year_label": "1368 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Petrarch concludes writing the sequence of Italian sonnets and other poems known as Il Canzoniere.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371792677#Date_unknown", "title": "1368", "revid": 1371792677, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1374, "year_label": "1374 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "July 19", "text": "July 19 – Petrarch, Italian poet (b. 1304)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369753981#Deaths", "title": "1374", "revid": 1369753981, "section": "Deaths"}}]}