Petrarch
Italian scholar and poet (1304-1374)
8 dated entries naming Petrarch, drawn from 8 separate years between 1304 CE and 1374 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.
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14th century
- 1304July 20 – Francesco Petrarca, Italian historian and poet (d. 1374)source
- 1327April 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.source
- 1336April 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.source
- 1337Petrarch, "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.source
- 1341April 8 – Petrarch is crowned poet laureate in Rome, the first man since antiquity to be given this honor.source
- 1348Laura de Noves, French countess, presumed beloved of Petrarch (b. 1310)source
- 1368Petrarch concludes writing the sequence of Italian sonnets and other poems known as Il Canzoniere.source
- 1374July 19 – Petrarch, Italian poet (b. 1304)source
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