31 Jan 1374 Jahr - Petrarch d.

Beschreibung:

Early humanist.

Recoverer of classical texts from monastic libraries.

His rediscovery of Cicero's letters is often credited with initiating the 14th-century Renaissance.

Coined the expression "Dark Ages"?

from intellectualistic ethics to the need for inspiration: rhetoric and poetry. and thus the rediscovery of sophistic relativism? TTC Renaissance, Reformation lecture 5