At his father’s insistence, he studied law for seven long years (1319-26) at universities in
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Thursday, May 2, 2013
Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374)
Francesco Petrarch was born on July 20, 1304, in a small town in Tuscany near Florence . Although his father and Dante were friends, Francesco later claimed he never read Dante’s Divine Comedy.
At his father’s insistence, he studied law for seven long years (1319-26) at universities inMontpelier and Bologna. He never, however, became a lawyer. He believed the legal system made a commodity of justice and simply sold it to the highest bidder. In 1325 he bought his first book: The City of God by Augustine of Hippo.
At his father’s insistence, he studied law for seven long years (1319-26) at universities in
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