Petrarch

Francesco Petrarca, known as Petrarch (1304-1374), was born in Arezzo on 20 July 1304, into an exiled Florentine Guelph family. He studied law at Montpellier and then at Bologna without ever practising it, and made a career in the service of the Church, without receiving major orders, living on benefices. Crowned poet in Rome in 1341, he then lived in Milan, Venice and Padua, before settling in Arquà, where he died in July 1374.

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