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Petrarch

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Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.


— Petrarch


#anger #avarice #banished #enjoy #envy

How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!


— Petrarch


#earth #fortune #how

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.


— Petrarch


#born #fortune #honorable #merit #more

Man has no greater enemy than himself.


— Petrarch


#greater #himself #man #than

Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.


— Petrarch


#curiosity #departure #follow #i #into

The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.


— Petrarch


#dazzling #impetuous #longs #love #only

There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.


— Petrarch


#burden #lighter #more #nor #pen

What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.


— Petrarch


#earth #fair #i #know #looks

Who naught suspects is easily deceived.


— Petrarch


#easily #naught #suspects #who

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.


— Petrarch


#difficult #how #ignorance #reputation #rocks






About Petrarch

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Did you know about Petrarch?

The nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt noted that Jean Buridan had climbed the same mountain a few years before and ascents accompliPetrarchd during the Middle Ages have been recorded including that of Anno II Archbishop of Cologne. In 1345 he personally discovered a collection of Cicero's letters not previously known to have existed the collection ad Atticum. Petrarch is often called the "Father of Humanism".

Petrarch would be later endorsed as a model for Italian style by the Accademia della Crusca. Petrarch's sonnets were admired and imitated throughout Europe during the Renaissance and became a model for lyrical poetry.

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