By: Gabrielle Perez

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Petrarch
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• By Gabrielle Perez
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Basics!
Italy

• his real name is Francesco Petrarca
• Born on July 20, 1304
• He died on July 19, 1374
• Lived Arezzo, Italy
• Raised in a small down near Florence called
  Incisa

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Petrarch
Francesco Petrarca

• He was an Italian scholar, poet, and early
  humanist
• He was known as the Father of Humanism
• He was a extremely intelligent man
• A lot of other writers looked up to him

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Key Pieces

• Petrarca was known for his own style which was
  Rime Sparse
• he also created the sonnet
• He was first found in Avignon,Italy in the 1300s
• Later all around Italy.

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Schooling
Bologna School in Italy

• He went to school at Montpellier from 1316-1320
  ad then went to Bologna from 1320- 1326
• His father Ser Petracco made him study the law
• The only thing he was really interested in was
  writing and Latin literature
• When his father died in 1326 he left school and
  went back to Avignon to study literature

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Africa

• After school he wrote the poem Africa
• The poem was about the second Punic War. General
  Hannibal leads his army to invade Italy which is
  a success. Then the Roman invade North Africa.
  There army was led by Publuis Cornelius Scipio
  Africanus. (The poems hero)

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Sucess

• This poem is what led him to be such a great
  success
• people say that this is what gave him his
  Everlasting Passion

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Laura
Laura

• In.1327 Petrarch saw a women by the name of Laura
  SainteClaire d Avignon (a church)
• He then wrote 366 poems about her in Rime
  Sparse (scattered rhymes)
• Other poets started to copy his style
• They later made all of his poems into a book
  called Canzoniere (songbook)

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Laura Continued.

• He described her a lovely, fair-haired, with a
  modest dignified bearing
• Nobody knows who she is
• They dont think that they had any contact with
  each other
• She denied him because she was married
• She then died in 1348
• He said that he found it even harder to live when
  she was dead then when he never saw her

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Fame

• After his two hits of the Poems Africa and Laura
  he was known throught the country
• People say that he was a celebrity
• He was crowned in Rome and honored for using
  different techniques of writing
• He then became ambassador

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He wrote

• In my younger days I struggled constantly with
  an overwhelming, but pure love affair. My only
  one and I would have struggled with it longer had
  not premature death bitter but salutary for me,
  extinguished the cooling flames. I certainly wish
  I could say that I have always been entirely free
  from desire of the flesh, but I would be lying if
  I did

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Life After

• He got married to a women who is unknown and had
  a baby girl in 1343 named Francesca
• He settled down in 1367 with his family and died
  in Arqua in Euganean Hills in July of 1374
• He gave his library of manuscripts to Venice
• They formed part of the book Bibliotheca Marci
  aria

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Bibliography

• NA. Francesco Petrarca. Petrarch. April 4,
  2007. Wikipedia. March 27, 2007
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrarch
• NA. Francesco Petrarca. Petrarch. March
  27,2007. Wikipedia. April 1, 2007
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa_28Petrarch2
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• NA. Francesco Petrarca Laura de Noves
  Petrarch. Nodate. Wikipedia. March 29,2007
• http//petrarch.petersadlon.com/

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The End