petrarch

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• born in Italy.
• Moved to France with his family.
• Studied law ( under father’s wishes)
• Passion was for Literature. ( Greece & Rome)
• Decided to leave law to pursue literature in 1326 after Father’s death.

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• cleric. ( religious leader)
• Travelling as diplomatic envoy for the church.
• Picked up on literature.
• ‘amid varied and confusing storms’
• humanity could once more reach the heights of past accomplishments.
• Obtained a doctrine in Humanism, bridging the gap between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

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• His other passion was writing.
• Sonnets, poems, letters.
• Poems first started after the death of his mother.
• love poems for a lady named Laura – Avignon Church 1327.
• His writings was greatly admired during his lifetime, and he was crowned Rome's poet laureate in 1341.
• highest regard was his Latin composition Africa, a poem about the Second Punic War.

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• His other passion was writing.
• Sonnets, poems, letters.
• Poems first started after the death of his mother.
• love poems for a lady named Laura – Avignon Church 1327.
• His writings was greatly admired during his lifetime, and he was crowned Rome's poet laureate in 1341.
• highest regard was his Latin composition Africa, a poem about the Second Punic War.

THOMAS MORE

Early Life

• Was brought back to London to study Law. (also by his father’s wishes)
• managed to keep up with his literary and spiritual interests while practicing law,
• read devotedly from both Holy Scripture and the classics.
• torn between a life of civil service and a monastic calling. work toward becoming a monk. he moved to a monastery outside the London city limits and subjected himself to the discipline of the Carthusians. But his sense of duty to serve his country overcame his desire for monasticism, and he entered Parliament in 1504.
• work toward becoming a monk.
• he moved to a monastery
• But his sense of duty to serve his country overcame his desire for monasticism, and he entered Parliament in 1504.

Many philosophy authors had looked up to More as being the heir to the stage that Petrarch had set up.

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• Both more and Petrarch were looked up to on their philosophical outlooks on humanism.
• More’s theories and concepts about Fortune have been seen to be indebted to Petrarch’s De Remedii utriusque fortunae.