The 14th century Italian poet Francesco Petrarch left hundreds of letters detailing his life and thoughts. Now scientists plan to dig up his remains to find out more about his flesh and bones.

It’s a textbook platitude that Petrarch is the first “modern man,” but I’m not so sure that this assertion holds up. His apparent frankness, his jittery ...

Tests have shown that the head of one of Italy's most-highly revered writers - the renaissance poet Francesco Petrarch - isn't his. Petrarch's tomb was opened last year The finding has put a damper on ...

Virgil replies: The remainder of the metrica delivers Petrarch's news of the present. Even in this short sequence, however, we can see that Francesco was no mean Dantist, expertly able to re-mix the ...

The Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece, the Mona Lisa, incorporates images inspired by the Roman poet Horace and Florentine poet Petrarch, according to one expert. Queen's University Classics professor ...

The poet Francesco Petrarch, inventor of the sonnet and, fittingly, the first known person to travel purely for pleasure, lent the village his name after his death. He was so taken with Arquà ...

Petrarch in Global Translation: A Genealogy of Western Love (PGT) is a collaborative humanities project across languages and national borders that is investigating the foundational conception of ...