Petrarch
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Italian scholar and poet
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Why Is Petrarch Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Francesco Petrarca , commonly anglicized as Petrarch , was a scholar and poet of the early Italian Renaissance, and one of the earliest humanists. Petrarch's rediscovery of Cicero's letters is often credited with initiating the 14th-century Italian Renaissance and the founding of Renaissance humanism. In the 16th century, Pietro Bembo created the model for the modern Italian language based on Petrarch's works, as well as those of Giovanni Boccaccio, and, to a lesser extent, Dante Alighieri. Petrarch was later endorsed as a model for Italian style by the .
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