Petrarch dies bent over a book
July 1374
The aging poet, living quietly at Arquà in the Euganean Hills, was found in his study slumped over a Virgil. He had spent his last years revising sonnets for Laura, dead of plague twenty-six years earlier. Humanism's first great practitioner had died as he had lived: among the ancient Romans.
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.
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