An Italian poet famous for love lyrics (1304-1374)

• "Africa" was this poet's epic
• Rhyme initially penned by favourite waggish poet
• Italian poet
• Italian Renaissance rhymester

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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 ...