Life of Petrarch by Ernest Hatch Wilkins

During the Middle Ages, Europe experienced tremendous destruction during the 5th and 15th centuries. Europe faces a great blow from both sides. For example, one of the most important blows is the centennial war. The war not only caused famine and starvation in Europe but also killed some 20 million people. Approximately one-third of the population was wiped out. The population of countless European cities has decreased by more than 40%. In fact, Paris loses half of its inhabitants, Venice, Hamburg and Bremen are expected to lose at least 60% of the population.

As Ernesto Hatch Wilkins writes in his companion life, "Pitlac is the most outstanding person in his era, he is one of the most prominent people in history." Petrarch The heritage We study encouraging us to study the state of the past human beings, to participate more fully in our present and to prepare smarter for the future. This is a legacy we celebrated 700 years later.

Philip II Augustus and Levi and his autobiography article sent a message expressing his dissatisfaction with his age. Native Petrarch works are better than those in Latin America. 366 poems, his Canzoniere, which gathered Sonnets, mainly focused on his unforgettable love for the Laura he met in Avignon, who was bothering him for the rest of his life did. In Trionfi, the legends and characters in history encounter love, purity, death, fame, time, and the form of an eternal fable. Also see the Italian Renaissance. Further reading: Bergin, Thomas G. Petrarch. Boston: Twayne Press, 1970; Bishop Morris. Petrarch and his world Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1963; Wilkins, Ernest Hatch. Petrarch's Life Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961. Louis B. Zimmeri

The culture of Giovanni Boccaccio is rooted in the Middle Ages, but the concept of his life is Renaissance. Like his companion Petrarch, he spans two eras, but he is different from Petrarch - he is an ancient enthusiast of classics and Christianity - he accepted the medieval tradition . Boccaccio's work reflects the background of his bourgeois business and the ideals of the Order of the Napoli Court where he spent his youth. He is trying to promote the Italian prose to medieval rhetoric and the art form cultivated in classical Latin prose; he is his great Italian contemporaries, Dante and Petrarch, and classical Praise the writer. In this sense, Boccaccio's inherent humanism is clearly in contrast to Petrarch's classic humanism.