Petrarch was born on July 20, 1304, in Arezzo. He lived in Tuscany until he was eight, when he and his family moved to Avignon, France. He studied law in Bologna but in 1326 his father died and Petrarch returned to Avignon to take minor orders in the church and would devote much of his life in the service of the church. In 1327, he would

Petrarch is a symbol of the Renaissance and a “modern man” because of his interest in writing about individual feelings and suffering. An example of this is his Vita Solitaria (1480), which was translated in 1924 as Solitary Life. He also wrote many letters during his travels that are important historical descriptions of the changing time in which he lived. He had a close friendship with the writer Giovanni Boccaccio and together with Dante; the three of them were responsible for making the Tuscan dialect of Italian the written language of Italy.

Although Petrach is well known, today, for his poetry, he is also famous for his contribution to the humanist literary and cultural movement of the 14th and 15th centuries. During the Renaissance, writers such as Dante Alighiere, Giovanni Boccaccio and Petrarch, along with the Italian painter Giotto were responsible for rediscovering, preserving and disseminating classical literature from the Greek a

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