World Petrarch Congress medal, 1974.

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World Petrarch Congress medal, 1974.

Medal to commemorate the World Petrarch Congress (on the theme "Francesco Petrarca, Citizen of the World"), held in Washington, D.C. in 1974 in honor of the 600th anniversary of Petrarch's death. The congress was held at the Folger Shakespeare Library.

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Folger Shakespeare Library

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The Folger Shakespeare Library is a world-renowned center for scholarship, learning, culture, and the arts that houses the world’s largest Shakespeare collection. The Folger collections include rare printed books, manuscripts, works of art, audiovisual materials, and modern scholarship. These materials extend beyond Shakespeare to include a wide range of disciplines – history and politics, theology and exploration, law and the arts – from the early modern period (1500–1750). An internationall...

World Petrarch Congress 1974 Washington, D.C.

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Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374

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Francesco Petrarca (b. July 20, 1304, Arezzo, Italy–d. July 19, 1374, Arquà, Italy), commonly anglicized as Petrarch, was a scholar and poet of Renaissance Italy who was one of the earliest humanists. His rediscovery of Cicero's letters is often credited with initiating the 14th-century Renaissance. Petrarch is often considered the founder of Humanism. Petrarch would be later endorsed as a model for Italian style by the Accademia della Crusca. Petrarch stduied law at the University of Montpell...