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 ...

Renaissance humanism formed the basis of a classical education that thrived well into the middle of the twentieth century, until the 1960s brats decided it was irrelevant. Though the Renaissance burst ...

“Humanism is personal, ... 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.

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Humanism was born in Renaissance Italy as an approach to reading Roman literature. ... Petrarch (1304-1374), a poet and scholar, relished the peripatetic “literary life.” ...