Francesco Petrarca (20 July 1304 – 19 July 1374), known in English as Petrarch, was an Italian scholar, poet, and one of the earliest Renaissance humanists.. Petrarch is often called the "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 …

The Petrarchan sonnet, also known as the Italian sonnet, is a sonnet named after the Italian poet Francesco Petrarca, although it was not developed by Petrarch himself, but rather by a string of Renaissance poets. Because of the structure of Italian, the rhyme scheme of the Petrarchan sonnet is more easily fulfilled in that language than in English. The original Italian sonnet form …

The "Dark Ages" is a term for the Early Middle Ages or Middle Ages in Western Europe after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, characterizing it as marked by economic, intellectual, and cultural decline.The concept of a "Dark Age" originated in the 1330s with the Italian scholar Petrarch, who regarded the post-Roman centuries as "dark" compared to the "light" of classical antiquity.

Francesco Petrarca (* 20.Juli 1304 in Arezzo; † 19. Juli 1374 in Arquà) war ein italienischer Dichter und Geschichtsschreiber.Er gilt als Mitbegründer des Renaissance-Humanismus und zusammen mit Dante Alighieri und Boccaccio als einer der wichtigsten Vertreter der frühen italienischen Literatur.Sein Name liegt dem Begriff Petrarkismus zugrunde, der eine bis ins 17.

Cancionero (Canzoniere en italiano) es el nombre con que popularmente se conoce la obra lírica en "vulgar" toscano de Francesco Petrarca Rerum vulgarium fragmenta (Fragmentos de cosas en vulgar), entendido vulgar como la concepción moderna de romance, compuesta en el siglo XIV, y publicada por primera vez en Venecia en 1470 por el editor Vindelino da Spira.