Petrarch
Italian poet and humanist whose Canzoniere, a sequence of 366 poems mostly addressed to Laura, defined the sonnet form and the Petrarchan love tradition. He is often called the first modern poet.
Works
- CanzoniereSequence of sonnets and verses celebrating unrequited love for a woman
- TrionfiAllegorical poems on triumphs of love, chastity, death, fame, time
- AfricaUnfinished epic on Scipio Africanus and the Second Punic War
- SecretumProse dialogue between Petrarch and Augustine discussing inner conflict and sin