Petrarch

Quotes

• “"This age of ours consequently has let fall, bit by bit, some of the richest and sweetest fruits that the tree of knowledge has yielded; has thrown away the results of the vigils and labours of the most illustrious men of genius, things of more value, I am almost tempted to say, than anything else in the whole world."”
• “Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal! When I heard her thus speak, though my fear still clung about me, with trembling voice I made reply in Virgil's words —”
• “Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.”
• “Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.”
• “Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.”
• “To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.”

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Key facts

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Francis Petrarch

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Francesco di Petracco

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Comune of Arezzo

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Arquà, Padua

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Arquà Petrarca

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Aretine

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Early Renaissance

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Poet laureate of Rome, 1341

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Giovanni (1337–1361) Francesca (born in 1343)

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Ser Petracco (father) Eletta Canigiani (mother)

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Gherardo Petracco (brother) Giovanni Boccaccio (friend)

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