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It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.   Petrarch, Francesco

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Francesco Petrarca or Petrarch (July 20, 1304 July 19, 1374) was an Italian scholar, poet, and early humanist. Petrarch and Dante are considered the fathers of the Renaissance.

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