PETRARCH

By: Ben Antoine

Francesco Petrarch

Born July 20, 1304 in Arezzo

Died on July 19, 1374

Pietro di Parenzo di Garzo was is father

His father died in 1326

AB O UT ME

FAMILY

He had a brother name  Gherardo

He had 2 children

One of his children's name are Giovanni

His other child name is  Francesca

Giovanni died by the plague in Avignon in 1361

Francesca was Petrarch's 2 born

Francesca had 2 of her own children later on

In 1316 he went to study in Montpellier with his brother

Shortly after in 1319 his mother died

In 1320 he went to study law in bologna

BACKGROUND

In 1326 Petrarch abandons his study of law and turns to the classics of which he studied in small amounts during his schooling

Him and his brother enter the service of the chruch

Petrarch wrote hundreds of poems about a girl name Laura de Noves

In 1336 he begins to compile Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta also called the Song Book When Petrarch dies the Song Book has 366 poems, mostly sonnets

MAJOR WORK

In 1345 Verona Petrarch discovers a collection of letters written by Cicero and collected by him over 1000 years ago

Petrarch begins to follow Cicero's lead and starts a collection of his own letters which he called Familiares

His Familiares will end up being a collection of 350 letters in 24 books spanning from 1325 to 1366.

Petrarch would terminate Familiares years later and begin Seniles

FAMILIARES

Petrarch would live out the rest of his life in Italy

Still in the service of the church and going on diplomatic missions from time to time

On the morning of July 19, 1374, a day before his birthday, Francesca walked in to Petrarch’s study and found him slumped over on his desk with a pen in his hand

He was buried in Parish church

FINAL MOMENTS