He traveled widely in Europe and served as an ambassador and has been called "the first tourist" because he traveled just for pleasure, which was the basic reason he climbed Mont Ventoux. On April 8, 1341, he became the first poet laureate since antiquity and was crowned on the holy grounds of Rome's Capitol. With his first large scale work, Africa, an epic in Latin about the great Roman general Scipio Africanus, Petrarch emerged as a European celebrity. This work gave him much time to devote to his writing. After the death of their parents, Petrarch and his brother Gherardo went back to Avignon in 1326, where he worked in numerous clerical offices.
Petrarch was a prolific letter writer and counted Boccaccio among his notable friends to whom he wrote often. He protested, "I couldn't face making a merchandise of my mind", as he viewed the legal system as the art of selling justice. Additionally he proclaimed that through legal manipulation his guardians robbed him of his small property inheritance in Florence, which only reinforced his dislike for the legal system. Petrarch however was primarily interested in writing and Latin literature and considered these seven years wasted. Because his father was in the profession of law he insisted that Petrarch and his brother study law also.
He studied law at the University of Montpellier (1316–20) and Bologna (1320–23) with a lifelong friend and schoolmate called Guido Sette. He spent much of his early life at Avignon and nearby Carpentras, where his family moved to follow Pope Clement V who moved there in 1309 to begin the Avignon Papacy. Petrarch spent his early childhood in the village of Incisa, near Florence. Petrarch's younger brother was born in Incisa in Val d'Arno in 1307. He was the son of Ser Petracco and his wife Eletta Canigiani. Petrarch was born in the Tuscan city of Arezzo in 1304. He is also known for being the first to develop the concept of the "Dark Ages".
Petrarch's sonnets were admired and imitated throughout Europe during the Renaissance and became a model for lyrical poetry. Petrarch would be later endorsed as a model for Italian style by the Accademia della Crusca. 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 is often called the "Father of Humanism". Petrarch's rediscovery of Cicero's letters is often credited for initiating the 14th-century Renaissance. Petrarch's poetry - it's lyricism, language and form - has had an enduring influence on the Western traditiion.Īuthor Thomas Wyatt was one of the first to introduce Petrarch to English readers.Francesco Petrarca (J– July 19, 1374), commonly anglicized as Petrarch (/ˈpiːtrɑrk, ˈpɛtrɑrk/), was an Italian scholar and poet in Renaissance Italy, and one of the earliest humanists.
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