HIST-308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Petrarch, Guelphs And Ghibellines, Middle Ages
14 Mar 2020
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The humanistic scholars themselves, however, tended not to live the same sort of lifestyle as their wealthy patrons. He himself was a citizen and a scholar, rather than a devoted intellectual: scholars and the church. In petrarch"s era, the mercantile families were not yet the primary sponsors of scholars. The church remained the premier sponsor with all of the institutional resources and wealth upon which it could draw. Throughout the middle ages, the church had played this role of sponsoring education. Feudal nobles families had also sent funds to universities and monasteries operated by the church, which often held their sons and daughters: petrarch and the church. Petrarch is closer to the renaissance than dante was, he too still lived in a medieval world. A world where intellectual influence flowed through the economic channels of the church and feudal aristocracy: petrarch"s origins. Francesco petrarca was born in arrezzo in 1304, making him 39 years younger than dante: placing petrarch.
