Today marks the 650th anniversary of the death of the medieval Italian poet, scholar and humanist Francesco Petrarca, known in English as Petrarch. Acknowledged as one of the most significant ...

Petrarch (1304–74), the great poet and perhaps the first humanist, remarked that donning the humanist’s garb by studying the great books of antiquity—as well as the Bible and the works of the Church ...

Catalog : WLIT.3730 Italian Humanism (Formerly 52.373) Academic Catalog Id: 006022 Credits Min: 3 Credits Max: 3 Description A study of the waning of the Middle Ages and the dawning of the Renaissance ...

Her book, at its best, does a splendid job of honoring it, beginning with the poets and scholars who anticipated the Renaissance, such as Petrarch and Boccaccio.

Portrait of Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) after Francesco Bonsignori. Photo: G. Dagli Orti/Bridgeman Images Humanism was born in Renaissance Italy as an approach to reading Roman literature.