With his first large-scale work, Africa, an epic in Latin about the great Roman general Scipio Africanus, Petrarch emerged as a European celebrity. This work gave him much time to devote to his writing. After the death of their parents, Petrarch and his brother Gherardo went back to Avignon in 1326, where he worked in numerous clerical offices. Petrarch was a prolific letter writer and counted Boccaccio among his notable friends to whom he wrote often. He protested, "I couldn't face making a merchandise of my mind", since he viewed the legal system as the art of selling justice.
Additionally, he proclaimed that through legal manipulation his guardians robbed him of his small property inheritance in Florence, which only reinforced his dislike for the legal system. Petrarch often got too distracted by his non-legal interests, that his father once threw his books into a fire, which he later lamented. Petrarch, however, was primarily interested in writing and Latin literature and considered these seven years wasted. Because his father was in the legal profession (a notary), he insisted that Petrarch and his brother also study law. Petrarch studied law at the University of Montpellier (1316–20) and Bologna (1320–23) with a lifelong friend and schoolmate, Guido Sette, future archbishop of Genoa. He spent much of his early life at Avignon and nearby Carpentras, where his family moved to follow Pope Clement V, who moved there in 1309 to begin the Avignon Papacy. Petrarch spent his early childhood in the village of Incisa, near Florence.
Dante Alighieri was a friend of his father. Petrarch's younger brother was born in Incisa in Val d'Arno in 1307. His given name was Francesco Petracco, which was Latinized to Petrarca. He was the son of Ser Petracco and his wife Eletta Canigiani. Petrarch was born in the Tuscan city of Arezzo on 20 July 1304. He is also known for being the first to develop the concept of the " Dark Ages". Petrarch's sonnets were admired and imitated throughout Europe during the Renaissance and became a model for lyrical poetry. Petrarch was later endorsed as a model for Italian style by the Accademia della Crusca. In the 16th century, Pietro Bembo created the model for the modern Italian language based on Petrarch's works, as well as those of Giovanni Boccaccio, and, to a lesser extent, Dante Alighieri. Petrarch's rediscovery of Cicero's letters is often credited with initiating the 14th-century Italian Renaissance and the founding of Renaissance humanism. Santa Maria della Pieve in Arezzo La Casa del Petrarca (birthplace) at Vicolo dell'Orto, 28 in Arezzoįrancesco Petrarca ( Italian: 20 July 1304 – 18/19 July 1374), commonly anglicized as Petrarch ( / ˈ p iː t r ɑːr k, ˈ p ɛ t-/), was a scholar and poet of early Renaissance Italy, and one of the earliest humanists.
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