Person1304 – 1374
Petrarch
Also called: Francesco Petrarca
Italian poet and scholar who sought to revive the classics of Greece and Rome — called the “father of humanism”
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From the late 14th to the early 16th century, a humanist culture that revived the culture of ancient Greece and Rome and put humanity at the centre flourished in the cities of Italy, under the patronage of the Medici of Florence.
People who appear alongside
- Lorenzo de’ Medici1449 – 1492
Head of the Medici family who ruled Florence (“the Magnificent”), patron of artists and scholars such as Botticelli and Michelangelo
- Leonardo da Vinci1452 – 1519
Renaissance painter and scientist who painted The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa and filled notebooks on anatomy, machines and flight — the “universal man”
- Michelangelo1475 – 1564
Renaissance sculptor, painter and architect who carved the David and painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
Themes this person appears in
- Late Medieval Europe and the Renaissance1077 – 1517
From Canossa to the eve of the Reformation — papal power at its height and in decline, towns and parliaments, royal power growing through the Hundred Years’ War and the Black Death, and the Renaissance and printing