When sent for, Morrone obstinately refused to accept the papacy, and even, as Petrarch says, tried to flee, until he was finally persuaded by a deputation of cardinals accompanied by the kings of Naples and Hungary.

While none of the pieces in the collection use the name " madrigal ", some of the compositions are settings of Petrarch, and the music carefully observes word placement and accent, and even contains word-painting, a feature which was to become characteristic of the later madrigal.

The poetry that Tromboncino set tended to be by the most famous writers of the time ; he set Petrarch, Galeotto, Sannazaro, and others ; he even set a poem by Michelangelo, Come haro dunque ardire, which was part of a collection Tromboncino published in 1518.

It is sometimes reported that Arnaut de Mareuil surpassed his more famous contemporary Arnaut Daniel him in elegant simplicity of form and delicacy of sentiment ; however, this is based on the personal opinion of an editor of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica, and against the consensus of both past and modern scholars: Dante, Petrarch, Pound and Eliot, who were familiar with both authors consistently proclaim Daniel's supremacy, and even Arnaut de Mareuil's curator, Simon Gaunt, writing 25 years later, makes no mention of such claim.

Immediately, the cat reacts strongly, and even appears to be “ appreciating the work .” The cat seems to be especially enthralled when Louisa plays Liszt's Petrarch Sonnets and Der Weihnachtsbaum, but less impressed with Schumann's Kinderszenen.

Boccaccio's change in writing style in the 1350s was not due just to meeting with Petrarch.

Petrarch describes how Pietro Petrone ( a Carthusian monk ) on Boccaccio's death bed sent another Carthusian ( Gioacchino Ciani ) to urge him to renounce his worldly studies.

Petrarch popularized the sonnet as a poetic form ; Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron made romance acceptable in prose as well as poetry ; François Rabelais rejuvenates satire with Gargantua and Pantagruel ; Michel de Montaigne single-handedly invented the essay and used it to catalog his life and ideas.

He also assimilated Petrarch and Giovanni Boccaccio's Humanism.

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 then dissuaded Boccaccio from burning his own works and selling off his personal library, letters, books, and manuscripts.

An admiring correspondent of Petrarch, he spent much of his salary on amassing a collection of 800 books, the largest library in Florence at the time.

Novelist Mary Shelley visited the library on 14 September 1840 but was disappointed by the tight security occasioned by the recent attempted theft of " some of the relics of Petrarch " housed there.

Sieber described the library of the monastery as rich in more than a thousand texts, including religious texts and those of Pindar, Petrarch, Virgil, Dante, Homer, Strabon, Thucydides and Diodore of Sicily.

In it Petrarch claimed to have been inspired by Philip V of Macedon's ascent of Mount Haemo and that an aged peasant had told him that nobody had ascended Ventoux before or after himself, 50 years before, and warned him against attempting to do so.

The golden bodies were rejected by the waves of the sea and corrupted the air, so that a great many people died ( Francesco Petrarch Chronica de le Vite de Pontefici et Imperadori Romani ).

On St John's Day 1333 Petrarch watched women at Cologne rinsing their hands and arms in the Rhine " so that the threatening calamities of the coming year might be washed away by bathing in the river.

Before his time the Italian language, so harmonious in the Sonnets of Petrarch and so energetic in the Commedia of Dante, had been invariably languid and prosaic in dramatic dialogue.

He was widely acknowledged as the greatest musician of his day, with Petrarch writing a glowing tribute, calling him: "... the keenest and most ardent seeker of truth, so great a philosopher of our age.

Petrarch ’ s position, expressed both strongly and amusingly in his invective On His Own Ignorance and That of Many Others ( De sui ipsius ac multorum ignorantia ) is also important for another reason: it represents the conviction that philosophy should let itself be guided by rhetoric, that the purpose of philosophy is therefore not so much to reveal the truth, but to encourage people to pursue the good.

Taken by his father to Florence to pursue the studies for which he appeared so apt, he studied Latin under Giovanni Malpaghino of Ravenna, the friend and protégé of Petrarch, and some Greek in Rome His distinguished abilities and his dexterity as a copyist of manuscripts brought him into early notice with the chief scholars of Florence: both Coluccio Salutati and Niccolò Niccoli befriended him.

Even so, to distinguish their government from its ancient rival to the east, the Genoese rarely used the " Most Serene " designation, opting more frequently for the appellation " Superb Republic " (), a nickname allegedly coined by Petrarch in 1358.

The relationship between the two forms is most obvious in the composers who concentrated on sacred music, especially Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, whose " motets " setting texts from the Canticum Canticorum, the biblical " Song of Solomon ," are among the most lush and madrigal-like of Palestrina's compositions, while his " madrigals " that set poems of Petrarch in praise of the Blessed Virgin Mary would not be out of place in church.

Petrarch would be later endorsed as a model for Italian style by the Accademia della Crusca.

Later in his " Letter to Posterity ", Petrarch 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.

After his grandfather's death in 1468, Savonarola may have attended the public school run by Battista Guarino, son of Guarino da Verona, where he would have received his introduction to the classics as well as to the poetry and writings of Petrarch, father of Renaissance humanism.

He is among the first Romance vernacular poets of the Middle Ages, one of the founders of a tradition that would culminate in Dante, Petrarch, and François Villon.

Soon however, the impact of Petrarch ( the sonnet cycle addressed to an idealised lover, the use of amorous pardoxes ), Italian poets in the French court ( like Luigi Alamanni ), Italian Neo-platonism and humanism, and the rediscovery of certain Greek poets ( such as Pindar and Anacreon ) would profoundly modify the French tradition.

Petrarch, who says that he saw him once in his childhood, did not preserve a pleasant recollection of him, and it would be useless to deny that he was jealous of his renown.

Petrarch, in many respects a Medieval man, regretted that Cicero had not been a Christian and believed that he certainly would have been one had not died before the birth of Jesus.

Soon however, the impact of Petrarch ( the sonnet cycle addressed to an idealised lover, the use of amorous pardoxes ), Italian poets in the French court ( like Luigi Alamanni ), Italian Neoplatonism and humanism, and the rediscovery of certain Greek poets ( such as Pindar and Anacreon ) would profoundly modify the French tradition.

In 1350 Petrarch wrote " these instruments which discharge balls of metal with most tremendous noise and flashes of fire ... were a few years ago very rare and were viewed with greatest astonishment and admiration, but now they are become as common and familiar as any other kinds of arms.

* The purists, headed by Venetian Pietro Bembo ( who, in his Gli Asolani, claimed the language might be based only on the great literary classics, such as Petrarch and some part of Boccaccio ).

It was the rediscovery of Cicero's speeches ( such as the defense of Archias ) and letters ( to Atticus ) by Italians like Petrarch that, in part, ignited the cultural innovations that we know as the Renaissance.

For example, his fourth book of madrigals for five voices begins with a complete sestina by Petrarch, continues with two-part sonnets, and concludes with another sestina: therefore the entire book can be heard as a unified composition with each madrigal a subsidiary part.

We cannot here do more than enumerate the leading troubadours and briefly indicate in what conditions their poetry was developed and through what circumstances it fell into decay and finally disappeared: Peire d ' Alvernha, who in certain respects must be classed with Marcabru ; Arnaut Daniel, remarkable for his complicated versification, the inventor of the sestina, a poetic form for which Dante and Petrarch express an admiration difficult for us to understand ; Arnaut de Mareuil, who, while less famous than Arnaut Daniel, certainly surpasses him in elegant simplicity of form and delicacy of sentiment ; Bertran de Born, now the most generally known of all the troubadours on account of the part he is said to have played both by his sword and his sirveniescs in the struggle between Henry II of England and his rebel sons, though the importance of his part in the events of the time seems to have been greatly exaggerated ; Peire Vidal of Toulouse, a poet of varied inspiration who grew rich with gifts bestowed on him by the greatest nobles of his time ; Guiraut de Borneil, lo macsire dels trobadors, and at any rate master in the art of the so-called close style ( trebar clus ), though he has also left us some songs of charming simplicity ; Gaucelm Faidit, from whom we have a touching lament ( plaint ) on the death of Richard Cœur de Lion ; Folquet of Marseille, the most powerful thinker among the poets of the south, who from being a merchant and troubadour became an abbot, and finally bishop of Toulouse ( d. 1231 ).

Petrarch's turn towards religion in his later life was inspired in part by Augustine's Confessions, and Petrarch imitates Augustine's style of self-examination and harsh self criticism in Secretum.

The work of the Makar of the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries was in part marked out by an adoption in vernacular languages of the new and greater variety in metrics and prosody current across Europe after the influence of such figures as Dante and Petrarch and similar to the route which Chaucer followed in England.

A follower of Juan Boscán and Garcilaso de la Vega, a friend of Jerónimo Jiménez de Urrea and Baltasar del Alcázar, Cetina adopted the doctrines of the Italian school and, under the name of Vandalio, wrote an extensive series of poems in the newly introduced metres ; his sonnets are remarkable for elegance of form and sincerity of sentiment, his other productions being in great part adaptations from Petrarch, Ariosto and Ludovico Dolce.

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.

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 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.

Francis Petrarch became a friend of Simone's while in Avignon, and two of Petrarch's sonnets ( Canzoniere 96 and 130 ) make reference to a portrait of Laura de Noves that Simone supposedly painted for the poet ( according to Vasari ).

Many worked for the organized Church and were in holy orders ( like Petrarch ), while others were lawyers and chancellors of Italian cities-like Petrarch's disciple, Salutati, the Chancellor of Florence-and thus had access to book copying workshops.

For verse he used Petrarch in preference to Petrarch's 16th-century imitators ; many of his madrigals set Petrarch's sonnets.

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

Many worked for the organized Church and were in holy orders ( like Petrarch ), while others were lawyers and chancellors of Italian cities, like Petrarch's disciple, Salutati, the Chancellor of Florence, and thus had access to book copying workshops.