The conception of a " rebirth " of Classical Latin learning is first credited to an Italian poet Petrarch, the father of Humanism, a term that was not coined until the 19th century, but the conception of a rebirth has been in common use since Petrarch's time.

This is the third subject in Petrarch's poem " The Triumphs ".

Scholars note that Petrarch's letter to Dionigi displays a strikingly " modern " attitude of aesthetic gratification in the grandeur of the scenery and is still often cited in books and journals devoted to the sport of mountaineering.

Petrarch's will ( dated April 4, 1370 ) leaves 50 florins to Boccaccio " to buy a warm winter dressing gown "; various legacies ( a horse, a silver cup, a lute, a Madonna ) to his brother and his friends ; his house in Vaucluse to its caretaker ; for his soul, and for the poor ; and the bulk of his estate to his son-in-law, Francescuolo da Brossano, who is to give half of it to " the person to whom, as he knows, I wish it to go "; presumably his daughter, Francesca, Brossano's wife.

There is little definite information in Petrarch's work concerning Laura, except that she is lovely to look at, fair-haired, with a modest, dignified bearing.

Petrarch's influence is evident in the works of Serafino Ciminelli from Aquila ( 1466-1500 ) and in the works of Marin Držić ( 1508-1567 ) from Dubrovnik.

The researchers are fairly certain that the body in the tomb is Petrarch's due to the fact that the skeleton bears evidence of injuries mentioned by Petrarch in his writings, including a kick from a donkey when he was 42.

* Dante Alighieri is exiled from Florence by the Black Guelphs, as is Petrarch's father ( see Guelphs and Ghibellines ).

It plays this role in Petrarch's Triumph of Chastity, and on the reverse of Piero della Francesca's portrait of Battista Strozzi, paired with that of her husband Federico da Montefeltro ( painted c 1472-74 ), Bianca's triumphal car is drawn by a pair of unicorns.

For example, Petrarch's Italia Mia stated that the " ancient valor in Italian hearts is not yet dead.

It is from Petrarch's treatise " De Remediis utriusque Fortunae ".

Délie ( sometimes understood as an anagram for l ' idée ) is the first French " canzoniere " or poetic collection modeled after Petrarch's Canzoiere, a series of love poems addressed to a Lady.

Petrarch's own copy of Ephemeridos belli Troiani, his key to Homer, is now the Codex Parisinus Lat.

The dialogue then turns to the question of Petrarch's seeming lack of free will, and Augustine explains that it is his love for temporal things ( specifically Laura ), and his pursuit of fame through poetry that " bind his will in adamantine chains ".

One of the earliest known records of taking pleasure in travel, of travelling for the sake of travel and writing about it, is Petrarch's ( 1304 – 1374 ) ascent of Mount Ventoux in 1336.

Petrarch's lyric verse is quite different, not only from that of the Provençal troubadours and the Italian poets before him, but also from the lyrics of Dante.

His setting of Non al suo amante, written about 1350, is the only known contemporaneous setting of Petrarch's poetry ( Petrobelli 1975 ; Fischer and d ' Agostino 2001 ).

What distinguishes the Sicilian School from the troubadours, however, is the introduction of a kinder, gentler type of woman than that found in their French models ; one who was nearer to Dante's madonnas and Petrarch's Laura, though much less characterised psychologically.

Their poetry was music to the eye, not to the ear, and their legacy is also apparent in Dante and Petrarch's lyrics.

The Liège manuscript is lost and so is Petrarch's copy, but Petrarch's copy " can be shown to be behind all but one of the later manuscripts " and preserve Petrarch's marginal annotations.

Petrarch's response was to turn from the outer world of nature to the inner world of " soul ":

In November, 2003, it was announced that pathological anatomists would be exhuming Petrarch's body from his casket in Arquà Petrarca, in order to verify 19th-century reports that he had stood 1. 83 meters ( about six feet ), which would have been tall for his period.

But the decision proved the precursor of the long Avignon Papacy, the " Babylonian captivity " ( 1309 – 77 ), in Petrarch's phrase, and marks a point from which the decay of the strictly Catholic conception of the pope as universal bishop may be dated.

Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey are both known for their translations of Petrarch's sonnets from Italian into English.

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.

The strong moral and political convictions which had inspired Dante belong to the Middle Ages and the libertarian spirit of the commune ; Petrarch's moral dilemmas, his refusal to take a stand in politics, his reclusive life point to a different direction, or time.

Petrarch's work has similar qualities ; yet neither Petrarch nor Dante could be classified among the pure ascetics of their time.

He did not undertake further missions for Florence until 1365, and traveled to Naples and then on to Padua and Venice, where he met up with Petrarch in grand style at Palazzo Molina, Petrarch's residence as well as the place of Petrarch's library.

Petrarch even offered to purchase Boccaccio's library, so that it would become part of Petrarch's library.

Petrarch's sonnets were admired and imitated throughout Europe during the Renaissance and became a model for lyrical poetry.

Petrarch's younger brother was born in Incisa in Val d ' Arno in 1307.

The later part of Petrarch's life he spent in journeying through northern Italy as an international scholar and poet-diplomat.

Francesca married Francescuolo da Brossano ( who was later named executor of Petrarch's will ) that same year.

In 1362, shortly after the birth of a daughter, Eletta ( same name as Petrarch's mother ), they joined Petrarch in Venice to flee the plague then ravaging parts of Europe.

The will mentions neither the property in Arquà nor his library ; Petrarch's library of notable manuscripts was already promised to Venice, in exchange for the Palazzo Molina.

Petrarch's Virgil ( title page ) ( c. 1336 ) Illuminated manuscript by Simone Martini, 29 x 20 cm Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan.

Among them are Secretum (" My Secret Book "), an intensely personal, guilt-ridden imaginary dialogue with Augustine of Hippo ; De Viris Illustribus (" On Famous Men "), a series of moral biographies ; Rerum Memorandarum Libri, an incomplete treatise on the cardinal virtues ; De Otio Religiosorum (" On Religious Leisure ") and De Vita Solitaria (" On the Solitary Life "), which praise the contemplative life ; De Remediis Utriusque Fortunae (" Remedies for Fortune Fair and Foul "), a self-help book which remained popular for hundreds of years ; Itinerarium (" Petrarch's Guide to the Holy Land "); a number of invectives against opponents such as doctors, scholastics, and the French ; the Carmen Bucolicum, a collection of 12 pastoral poems ; and the unfinished epic Africa.

While Petrarch's poetry was set to music frequently after his death, especially by Italian madrigal composers of the Renaissance in the 16th century, only one musical setting composed during Petrarch's lifetime survives.

In contrast, Petrarch's thought and style are relatively uniform throughout his life – he spent much of it revising the songs and sonnets of the Canzoniere rather than moving to new subjects or poetry.

Finally, Petrarch's enjambment creates longer semantic units by connecting one line to the following.

The vast majority ( 317 ) of Petrarch's 366 poems collected in the Canzoniere ( dedicated to Laura ) were sonnets, and the Petrarchan sonnet still bears his name.