Petrarch, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Petrarch

Italian scholar and poet

Date of Birth: 20-Jul-1304

Place of Birth: Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy

Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001

Profession: writer, poet, translator, lyricist, philosopher, mountaineer, autobiographer

Nationality: Italy

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Francesco Petrarca (Italian: [fran't?esko pe'trarka]; July 20, 1304 – July 18/19, 1374), commonly anglicized as Petrarch (), was an Italian scholar and poet during the early Italian Renaissance who was one of the earliest humanists.
Petrarch's rediscovery of Cicero's letters is often credited with initiating the 14th-century Italian Renaissance and the founding of Renaissance humanism.
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 would be later endorsed as a model for Italian style by the Accademia della Crusca. Petrarch's sonnets were admired and imitated throughout Europe during the Renaissance and became a model for lyrical poetry.
He is also known for being the first to develop the concept of the "Dark Ages."



Alternative names	Giusto da Guanto, Justus of Ghent, Birth name: Joos van Wassenhove
Description	Southern Netherlandish painter and draughtsman
Date of birth/death	circa 1430 date QS:P,+1430-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902	after 1480 date QS:P,+1480-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1480-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Location of birth/death	Ghent	Italy
Work period	circa 1460–1480
Work location	Antwerp (1460), Ghent (1464), Italy (1468), Urbino (1473–1480)
Authority control	: Q515796 VIAF: 69201606 ISNI: 0000 0000 6138 6489 ULAN: 500031220 LCCN: nr96002526 WGA: JOOS van Wassenhove WorldCat