Francesco Petrarca
Famous Italian poet, scholar, and humanist Francesco Petrarca, known in English as Petrarch, collected love lyrics in
Canzoniere
.
People often call Petrarch the earliest Renaissance "father of humanism". Based on Petrarch's works, and to a lesser extent those of Dante Alighieri and Giovanni Boccaccio, Pietro Bembo in the 16th century created the model for the modern Italian language, which the Accademia della Crusca later endorsed. People credit Petrarch with developing the sonnet. They admired and imitated his sonnets, a model for lyrical poems throughout Europe during the Renaissance. Petrarch called the Middle Ages the Dark Ages.
“loving friendship is able to endure everything; it refuses no burden.”
Francesco Petrarca
“Pace non trovo e non ho da far guerra.”
Francesco Petrarca
“Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.”
Francesco Petrarca
“Sweet is the death that taketh end by love.”
Francesco Petrarca
“The world’s delight is a brief dream.”
Francesco Petrarca
“walk forwards in the radiance of the past”
Francesco Petrarca
“I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.”
Francesco Petrarca
“„Жестоко е сред бурени да бъдеш цвете!”
Francesco Petrarca
“Libri quosdam ad scientiam, quosdam ad insaniam deduxere. (Books have led some to knowledge and some to madness.)”
Francesco Petrarca