... the poems of later poets such as Shakespeare and Chaucer. His works were considered to be the first "modern" poems and the inventor of the sonnet, writing over 300 sonnets. Francesco was born in Arezzo, Italy, July 20th, 1304. His family moved to Florence early in his life. There his father, Petracco, was a court clerk, but he was forced to leave ... father wanted him to be in the legal profession, and sent him to the necessary schools at Montpellier and Bologna. Francesco didn't want to be an attorney, and devoted himself as much as possible to humanistic writings. When Francesco's fat...

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... example can be found on a wall of the cemetery close to Camposanto (Pisa Cathedral) in Pisa. Like Pieter Bruegel, The Elder's painting, "Triumph of Death", 1562 (attached), this fresco by Francesco Traini, is also called "Triumph of Death", 1350 (Roy T. Matthew and F. DeWitt Platt, The Western Humanities, Second Edition, Mayfield Publishing Company, 1994). Death relinquished its identity as an intangible skeleton ... ...

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... example can be found on a wall of the cemetery close to Camposanto (Pisa Cathedral) in Pisa. Like Pieter Bruegel, The Elder's painting, "Triumph of Death", 1562 (attached), this fresco by Francesco Traini, is also called "Triumph of Death", 1350 (Roy T. Matthew and F. DeWitt Platt, The Western Humanities, Second Edition, Mayfield Publishing Company, 1994). Death relinquished its identity as an intangible skeleton ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... example can be found on a wall of the cemetery close to Camposanto (Pisa Cathedral) in Pisa. Like Pieter Bruegel, The Elder's painting, "Triumph of Death", 1562 (attached), this fresco by Francesco Traini, is also called "Triumph of Death", 1350 (Roy T. Matthew and F. DeWitt Platt, The Western Humanities, Second Edition, Mayfield Publishing Company, 1994). Death relinquished its identity as an intangible skeleton ... ...

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... of life, haunting the imagination of men." The plague did not only affect the poor or indigent, but the rich and powerful were also falling prey to its grip. In Francesco Traini's, "Triumph of Death," there is an illustration of a hunting party coming across three plague victims. The illustration shows one of obvious poverty, wearing only rags, the second a European king ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School