[DOC] [TLE] Petrarch - Wikipedia [PAR] 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 with initiating the 14th-century 
Renaissance. Petrarch is often considered the founder of Humanism. ... Petrarch 
was a prolific letter writer and counted Boccaccio among his... [DOC] [TLE] Italian literature - Wikipedia [PAR] Italian literature is written in the Italian language, particularly within Italy. It may 
also refer to ... Dante, one of the greatest of Italian poets, is notable for his Divina 
... Renaissance humanism developed during the 14th and the beginning of the 
15th ..... Giacomo da Lentini is also credited with inventing the sonnet, a form 
later... [DOC] [TLE] Italian Renaissance - Wikipedia [PAR] The Italian Renaissance was the earliest manifestation of the general European 
Renaissance, .... By the late 14th century, Milan had become a centralized 
monarchy under the control of the Visconti family. ..... He was the foremost writer 
of sonnets in Italian, and translations of his work into English by Thomas Wyatt... [DOC] [TLE] Italian literature | Britannica.com [PAR] By an accident of history, all the poetry of the Sicilian school was handed down in 
... the comic poetswhose usual verse form was the sonnetwere cultivated ... 
The literature of 14th-century Italy dominated Europe for centuries to follow and 
.... As a disciple of Petrarch, Boccaccio shared the humanist interests of his age,... [DOC] [TLE] ITALIAN VERNACULAR LITERATURE - WWW-VL History Central ... [PAR] The emperor himself probably wrote poetry and had at his court a number of 
poets. ... One of these forms was the sonnet, which was to have not merely an 
Italian but ... that Italy had a common written language by the end of the 
fourteenth century. ... Petrarch claimed that his own Italian poems were trifles and 
meant little to... [DOC] [TLE] Renaissance Writers The 13th and 14th century Italian ... - Boundless [PAR] Petrarch's disciple, Giovanni Boccaccio, became a major author in his own right, 
... the stage for Renaissance literature with his Divine Comedy, widely 
considered ... was an Italian humanist, historian and statesman, often recognized 
as the first ... of his work into English by Thomas Wyatt established the sonnet 
form in that... [DOC] [TLE] Humanism - Some History | Humanism [PAR] Jul 3, 2014 ... It was first employed (as humanismus) by 19th-century German scholars to ... 
Renaissance humanism in all its forms defined itself in its straining ... Moreover, 
Classical thought considered ethics qua ethics, politics .... Petrarch's honest 
investigation of his own doubts and mixed motives is .... The 14th century. [DOC] [TLE] Italian literature | Early vernacular literature | Academic Room [PAR] His laudi, in the form of ballads, were often concerned with the themes of spiritual 
... The literature of 14th-century Italy dominated Europe for centuries to follow and 
.... the period from Charles II's Italian expedition (1265) to the author's own time, 
are ... In the first half of the century the humanists, with their enthusiasm for Latin... [DOC] [TLE] Petrarch - Philosopher, Poet - Biography.com [PAR] Apr 2, 2014 ... Over his lifetime, Petrarch discovered lost classics, wrote new ... History & Culture 
... Petrarch was a poet and scholar whose humanist philosophy set the ... He is 
also considered one of the fathers of the modern Italian ... The collection also 
contains 317 sonnets; Petrarch was an early practitioner of the form... [DOC] [TLE] Petrarch - Poet | Academy of American Poets - Poets.org [PAR] The earliest major practitioner of the sonnet, Petrarch is credited with the ... In 
1333, Petrarch connected with fellow Italian poet Giovanni Boccaccio, with whom 
he ... After his first visit to Rome in 1337, Petrarch began composing Africa, an 
epic ... Petrarch is considered the father of Humanism," an attitude associated 
with... [DOC] [TLE] Humanism: An Introduction [PAR] This was indirectly based on the rhetorical works of Cicero, though it had become 
... Most scholars would say that Petrarch, an Italian poet and writer of the 
Trecento ... He strove to learn from Cicero

Question: Considered the first Italian humanist, this 14th century author had his own sonnet form
Answer: Petrarch