jan 1, 1345 - Petrarch discovers the letters of Cicero
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Petrarch was a medieval scholar who spent much of his life traveling in search of lost Greek and Roman records. This endeavor paid off when he discovered the untouched letters of Cicero in the library of the Verona Cathedral.
Petrarch is also considered to be the father of humanism; because of how he disliked the religious disdain widespread in the centuries before him, he advocated for introspection and coined the term "Dark Ages" in reference to these times. Instead, he published a number of essays that came to define many of the principles of Renaissance humanism.
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