Renaissance Activity 1B Factsheet
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| FRANCESCO PETRARCH |
| *This Italian poet loved books and hunted all France and Italy to form an extensive private library which he made available to all scholars. This was when most books were locked away behind monastery walls. Because of his openness to classical culture many scholars began to study original Greek and Roman texts, discovering that their own translated versions contained many mistakes. They re-discovered ideas that had been lost for thousands of years. |
| "If burning far away, and freezing near, Are signs that Love consumes me to the core, Yours, lady, is the fault and mine the loss." |
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