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 ...

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.

For, in seeking to express his feelings for the woman he called Laura, Francesco Petrarch gave definitive form to the sonnet and established himself as the first modern, western poet. Now ...

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 ...