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THE BOOK IN THE RENAISSANCE •
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Petrarch

Petrarch
Figure 1 Boccaccio's vision of Petrarch. Petrarch was the hero and
inspiration of generations of humanists: writers, scholars and book collectors
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Humanist scholarship emerged as a significant force in the book world towards the end of the fourteenth century. The inspiration was Francesco Petrarch (1304-74), scholar, collector and man of letters. Petrarch lived for much of his youth in Avignon, a cultural center well placed for investigative sorties into the large monastic and cathedral collections of northern Europe. A manuscript from Chartres Cathedral provided him with the crucial texts for a reconstruction of works of Livy; other libraries yielded works by Seneca and Cicero. Petrarch’s most significant discovery, however, was made in Italy, in 1345, when he unearthed the text of Cicero’s ‘Letters of Atticus’ in the Chapter Library at Verona. During the course of a long life Petrarch accumulated an impressive library, which he persuaded the city fathers of Venice to accommodate, on the promise that it would be bequeathed to the Republic….. Page 10

THE BOOK IN THE RENAISSANCE
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. . . . The realization that something new and unique was happening first came to men of letters in the fourteenth century, especially the poet and humanist Francesco Petrrch. Petrarch thought that he was living at the start of a new age, a period of light following a long night of Gothic gloom. He believed that first two centuries of Roman Empire represented the peak in the development of human civilization. . . . . .The sculptors, painters, and writers of the Renaissance spoke contemptuously of their medieval predecessors and identified themselves with the thinkers and artists of Greco-Roman civilization Petrarch believed he was witnessing a new golden age of intellectual achievement – a rebirth or, to use the French word that came into English, a “renaissance.” The division of historical time into periods is often arbitrary and done for the convenience of historians. . . .

The Renaissance also manifested itself in a new attitude toward men, women, and the world – an attitude that may be described as individualism. A humanism characterized by a deep interest in the Latin classics and the deliberate attempt to revive antique lifestyles emerged, as did a bold new secular spirit. ~ Page 395

A History of Western Society
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