Petrarch (1304-1374), one of the founding fathers of humanism in Italian language and renaissance, could perhaps be described as the originator of the poetic genre 'sonnet' signified as a composition ...

But today Petrarch’s influence ... argued that it was the Florentine humanist and book collector Poggio Bracciolini who kick-started the Renaissance with his rediscovery of De Rerum Natura ...

Renaissance thinkers saw their own era as a reenactment of the great dramas of Greek history. What drove this comparison?

Teaching courses on Dante's Divine Comedy and on the Renaissance in Italy are two of the joys of ... His book Education's Great Amnesia: Reconsidering the Humanities from Petrarch to Freud, with a ...