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The Connections of Petrarch
Italian scholar and poet (1304-1374) Every person recorded alongside Petrarch in the archive: family, teachers, students, influences, and the contemporaries who shared the same years.
Family & Connections
People recorded alongside Petrarch in the ledgers of the archive.
- Parents
- Petracco, Eietta Canigiani
- Children
- Francesca
- Teachers
- Pietro Cerniti, Jacobus de Belviso, Barlaam of Seminara, Giovanni d'Andrea
- Students
- Giovanni Malpaghini
- Influenced
- Luis de Camoes
Alive in the same years
Records in the archive whose lifetimes overlapped the years 1304 to 1374.
Medieval era
Charles Martel
April 13, 1327 – April 21, 1327
Duke of Calabria, born April 1327
Medieval era
Timur
April 9, 1336 – February 19, 1405
The founder of the Timurid Empire (1370–1405)
Medieval era
Mansa Musa
1280 – 1337
14th-century emperor (mansa) of the Mali Empire
Medieval era
Osman I
August 23, 1258 – August 1, 1326
Founder of the Ottoman Empire (died 1323/4)
Medieval era
Robert the Bruce
July 11, 1274 – June 7, 1329
King of Scotland (1306–1329)
Medieval era
Edward I of England
June 17, 1239 – July 7, 1307
King of England from 1272 to 1307
Medieval era
Hongwu Emperor
October 29, 1328 – June 24, 1398
Founding emperor of China's Ming dynasty; ruled 1368–1398
Medieval era
Hafez
1326 – 1389
Persian poet and mystic (1325–1389)
Medieval era
Ibn Khaldun
May 27, 1332 – March 17, 1406
Historiographer and historian
Medieval era
Dante Alighieri
May 30, 1265 – September 13, 1321
Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265–1321)
Medieval era
Geoffrey Chaucer
1343 – October 25, 1400
14th century English poet and author (1343–1400)
Medieval era
Giovanni Boccaccio
June 16, 1313 – September 21, 1375
Italian author and poet (1313–1375)