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How does Petrarch exemplify the era and spirit of the Renaissance period? How does his work and achievements reflect the Renaissance style or new techniques developed? 

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How does Petrarch exemplify the era and spirit of the Renaissance period? How does his work and achievements reflect the Renaissance style or new techniques developed? 

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Petrarch had a major impact on the evolution of poetry in the Renaissance. He introduced innovations that made it possible for poets to use language in a very expressive and impressive way. His works encouraged poets to write in a more personal and thoughtful style. Surprisingly, he also influenced Shakespeare, and made his own personal style of the sonnet, which is based on his own verse.

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Canzonier, a famous poem by Francesco Petrarch, which includes sonnets, songs,and madrigals

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What are the three most important things Petrarch accomplished, and what is he best known for?

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What are the three most important things Petrarch accomplished, and what is he best known for?

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Petrarch wrote many literature and poems, his three most famous ones were, Canzoniere, the Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, and Africa.  He was most famous for being called the “father of humanism,” for being crowned as a poet laureate in Rome, and for his personal library becoming one of the largest collections of works of classical literature at that time.

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Petrarch recovered manuscripts of very important writers

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Why is Petrarch important to the Renassiance?

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Why is Petrarch important to the Renassiance?

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Petrarch is important to the Renaissance because he recovered and collected many valuable manuscripts of important Greek and Roman writers that may have or else been lost, and played a very huge and important role to the future of humanist scholarship.

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Avignon and Montpellier, where Petrarch received a full education in religion at

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What did Petrarch do before his Renaissance achievement, and what was his younger life like? 1 

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What did Petrarch do before his Renaissance achievement, and what was his younger life like? 1 

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Petrarch received a full education in religion at Avignon and Montpellier. At about 16 years old, he traveled to Bologna, and studied law for 6 years, at his fathers instruction, who wanted his son to receive a legal education.

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Poetry, what Petrarch developed an appreciation for 

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What Petrarch did before his Renaissance achievement and what was their younger life like? 2

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What Petrarch did before his Renaissance achievement and what was their younger life like? 2

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Petrarch developed an interest in classical literature, mostly the works of the Roman writers, Virgil, and Cicero. He developed an appreciation for poetry that had a significant influence on his own life’s work because of the two writers.

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Petrarch died on July 18, 1374, in Arquà Petrarca, Italy

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Francesco Petrarch was born in Arezzo, Italy on July 20, 1304.