Italy: Francesco Petrarca, aka Petrarch (1304 - 1374), Italian scholar and poet. 19th century statue outside the Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy. Sculpted by Andrea Leoni. (2016)

Francesco Petrarca (July 20, 1304 – July 19, 1374), commonly anglicized as Petrarch, was an Italian scholar and poet in Renaissance Italy, and one of the earliest humanists.

Petrarch's rediscovery of Cicero's letters is often credited for initiating the 14th-century Renaissance. Petrarch is often considered the founder of Humanism.

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