Francesco Petrarca, or Petrarch, one of the best-known early Italian sonnet writers rename

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  Date of birth:

  Jul 20, 1304

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  • Italy

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  Date of death:

  Jul 19, 1374

  Francesco Petrarca (July 20, 1304 – July 19, 1374), known in English as Petrarch, was an Italian scholar, poet and one of the earliest Renaissance humanists. Petrarch is often called the "Father of Humanism". Based on Petrarch's works, as well as...

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  The sonnet is one of the poetic forms that can be found in lyric poetry from Europe. The term "sonnet" derives from the Occitan word sonet and the Italian word sonetto, both meaning "little song". By the thirteenth century, it had come to signify a...

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