Francesco Petrarca

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Italian writer Renaissance humanist human humanist poet scholar

Francesco Petrarca, commonly known as Petrarch, was a 14th-century Italian scholar, poet, and early humanist whose writings and rediscovery of classical texts earned him recognition as a founding figure of Renaissance humanism.

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Surface form	Occurrences
Petrarch	9
Petrarca, Francesco	1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Italian writer ⓘ Renaissance humanist ⓘ human ⓘ humanist ⓘ poet ⓘ scholar ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Francesco Petrarca ⓘ surface form: Petrarch
burialPlace	Arquà ⓘ surface form: Arquà Petrarca
citizenship	Republic of Florence ⓘ
countryOfBirth	Republic of Florence ⓘ
countryOfDeath	Republic of Venice ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1304-07-20 ⓘ
dateOfDeath	1374-07-19 ⓘ
educatedAt	University of Bologna ⓘ University of Montpellier ⓘ
era	14th century ⓘ Trecento ⓘ
gender	male ⓘ
hasCanonicalNameForm	Francesco Petrarca self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Petrarca, Francesco
influenced	Renaissance humanism ⓘ surface form: European Renaissance literature Giovanni Boccaccio ⓘ Humanist scholars of the Renaissance ⓘ Renaissance humanism ⓘ development of the sonnet form ⓘ
influencedBy	Augustine of Hippo ⓘ Cicero ⓘ Virgil ⓘ
knownFor	being a founder of Renaissance humanism ⓘ development of the Petrarchan sonnet ⓘ rediscovery of Cicero's letters ⓘ
literaryGenre	lyric poetry ⓘ sonnet ⓘ
movement	Renaissance humanism ⓘ early humanism ⓘ
name	Francesco Petrarca self-link ⓘ
nativeLanguage	Italian ⓘ
notableWork	Africa ⓘ Il Canzoniere ⓘ surface form: Canzoniere De remediis utriusque fortunae ⓘ De vita solitaria ⓘ Epistolae familiares ⓘ Epistolae seniles ⓘ Il Canzoniere ⓘ Rerum vulgarium fragmenta ⓘ Secretum ⓘ
occupation	clergyman ⓘ diplomat ⓘ poet ⓘ scholar ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Arezzo ⓘ
placeOfDeath	Arquà ⓘ Arquà ⓘ surface form: Arquà Petrarca
religion	Catholicism ⓘ
subjectOf	Petrarchan sonnet tradition ⓘ
wroteInLanguage	Italian ⓘ Latin ⓘ

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Francesco Petrarca → alsoKnownAs → Francesco Petrarca ⓘ

this entity surface form: Petrarch

Giovanni Boccaccio → associatedWith → Francesco Petrarca ⓘ

Tuscans → associatedWith → Francesco Petrarca ⓘ

Renaissance humanism → associatedWithFigure → Francesco Petrarca ⓘ

Francesco Petrarca → hasCanonicalNameForm → Francesco Petrarca self-linksurface differs ⓘ

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University of Bologna → hasNotableAlumnus → Francesco Petrarca ⓘ

this entity surface form: Petrarch

Dante Alighieri → influenced → Francesco Petrarca ⓘ

Coluccio Salutati → influencedBy → Francesco Petrarca ⓘ

this entity surface form: Petrarch

Geoffrey Chaucer → influencedBy → Francesco Petrarca ⓘ

this entity surface form: Petrarch

Giovanni Boccaccio → influencedBy → Francesco Petrarca ⓘ

this entity surface form: Petrarch

Leonardo Bruni → influencedBy → Francesco Petrarca ⓘ

this entity surface form: Petrarch

Luís de Camões → influencedBy → Francesco Petrarca ⓘ

this entity surface form: Petrarch

Francesco Petrarca → name → Francesco Petrarca self-link ⓘ

Italian language → notableAuthorLanguageOf → Francesco Petrarca ⓘ

Republic of Florence → notablePerson → Francesco Petrarca ⓘ

this entity surface form: Petrarch

Renaissance Latin → usedBy → Francesco Petrarca ⓘ

this entity surface form: Petrarch