The Ascent of Mount Ventoux

Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374), better known in English as Francis Petrarch, was a Tuscan scholar, poet and initiate of the early Italian Renaissance and one of the fathers of Humanism. His rediscovery of Cicero's letters is often credited with initiating the 14th-century Italian Renaissance and the founding of Renaissance humanism. In the 16th century, Pietro Bembo created the model for the modern Italian language based on Petrarca's works, as well as those of Giovanni Boccaccio, and, to a...