Quo Fuit places 9 dated presences for Petrarch across 8 places, from 1304 to 1374.
Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Francis Petrarch (born Francesco di Petracco; 20 July 1304 – 19 July 1374) was an Italian scholar and poet of the early Italian Renaissance, as well as one of the earliest Renaissance humanists.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Petrarch was documented, and when
20 July 1304exact date
Tuscanyattested“Petrarch was born in the Tuscan city Arezzo on 20 July 1304.”source: Wikipedia: Petrarch
1307year
Incisa in Val d'Arnoattested“His younger brother Gherardo (Gerard Petrarch) was born in Incisa in Val d'Arno in 1307.”source: Wikipedia: Petrarch
1309year
Avignonattested“He spent much of his early life at Avignon and nearby Carpentras, where his family moved to follow Pope Clement V, who moved there in 1309 to begin the Avignon Papacy.”source: Wikipedia: Petrarch
1316 to 1326period
University of Montpellierattested“Petrarch studied law at the University of Montpellier (1316–1320) and Bologna (1320–1326) with a lifelong friend and schoolmate, Guido Sette, future archbishop of Genoa.”source: Wikipedia: Petrarch
1326year
Avignonattested“After the death of their parents, Petrarch and his brother Gherardo went back to Avignon in 1326, where he worked in numerous clerical offices.”source: Wikipedia: Petrarch
1362 to 1367period
Veniceattested“Francesca and her family lived with Petrarch in Venice for five years from 1362 to 1367 at Palazzo Molina; although Petrarch continued to travel in those years.”source: Wikipedia: Petrarch
1368year
Paduaattested“About 1368 Petrarch and Francesca (with her family) moved to the small town of Arquà in the Euganean Hills near Padua, where he passed his remaining years in religious contemplation.”source: Wikipedia: Petrarch
1368year
Euganean Hillsattested“About 1368 Petrarch and Francesca (with her family) moved to the small town of Arquà in the Euganean Hills near Padua, where he passed his remaining years in religious contemplation.”source: Wikipedia: Petrarch
19 July 1374exact date
Arquà Petrarcaattested“He died in his house in Arquà on 18/19 July 1374.”source: Wikipedia: Petrarch
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1345year
Chapter Library of Veronamentioned“In 1345 he personally discovered a collection of Cicero's letters not previously known to have existed, the collection Epistulae ad Atticum, in the Chapter Library (Biblioteca Capitolare) of Verona Cathedral.”source: Wikipedia: Petrarch
4 April 1370exact date
Vauclusementioned“On the marble slab, there is a Latin inscription written by Antonio Quarenghi: Petrarch's will (dated 4 April 1370) leaves fifty florins to Boccaccio "to buy a warm winter dressing gown"; various legacies (a horse, a silver cup, a lute,…”source: Wikipedia: Petrarch
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