“Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.”
Quotes by Francesco Petrarca
“A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.”
“I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.”
Francesco PetrarcaFrancesco Petrarca, often known as the father of Renaissance humanism, was a pivotal figure in the early Italian Renaissance. Born in Arezzo, he was a scholar and poet whose rediscovery of classical t...