Petrarch
Petrarch
Francesco Petrarca, commonly anglicized as Petrarch, was an Italian scholar and poet in Renaissance Italy, and one of the earliest humanists. Petrarch's rediscovery of Cicero's letters is often credited for initiating the 14th-century Renaissance. Petrarch is often considered the founder of Humanism. 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 would be later endorsed as...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth20 July 1304
CityArezzo, Italy
CountryItaly
I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
Continued work and application form my soul's nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.
Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.
Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.
Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.
Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
It is better to will the good than to know the truth,