loving friendship is able to endure everything; it refuses no burden.
Francesco Petrarca Quotes
Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
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| Birth: | 20th July, 1304 |
| Death: | 1374 |
| Nationality: | Italian |
| Profession: | Poet, Scholar |
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Francesco Petrarca was born in Arezzo, Italy. He was a poet and scholar whose humanist philosophy set the stage for the Renaissance. He is also considered one of the fathers of the modern Italian language. Petrarch's writing includes well-known odes to Laura, his idealized love.
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