Popular Works

 Canzoniere (“Songbook”)
 Trionfi (“Triumphs”)
Common theme of his work

 Petrarch’s themes are traditional, his treatment of them

profoundly original. Some of them are love at first sight,
obsessive yearning and lovesickness, frustration, love as
parallel to feudal service, war within the self-hope, fear, joy,
sorrow and many more.
Facts about him

 Francesco Petrarca commonly anglicized as Petrarch, was an

Italian scholar and poet during the early Italian Renaissance
FRANCESCO PETRARCHA who was one of the earliest humanists.
 He was the son of Ser Petracco and his wife Eletta Canigiani.
Date of birth: July 20, 1304  His given name was Francesco Petracco, the name was
Place of birth: Arezzo, Republic of Florence (now Arezzo, Italy) latinized to Petrarca.
 Petrarch spent the later part of his life journeying through
northern Italy as an international scholar and poet-diplomat.
 Petrarca has two children, Giovanni and Francesca.
 Popular Works

 Macbeth
 Romeo and Juliet
 Hamlet
Common theme of his work

 Some of them are ambition, what it means to be a man,

conflict, corruption, transformation, order and disorder,
loyalty, appearance and reality, guilt, sin and retribution,
good and evil, and many more.
Facts about him

 William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and

actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English
language and the world’s greatest dramatist.
 He is often called England’s national poet and the “Bard of
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Avon”.
Date of birth: April 1564  At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he
Place of birth: Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England had three children: Susanna Hall and twins Hamnet
Shakespeare and Judith Quiney.
 William Shakespeare was the son of John Shakespeare, an
alderman and a successful glover (glove-maker) originally
from Snitterfield, and Mary Arden, the daughter of an affluent
landowning farmer.
 His actual date of birth remains unknown, but is traditionally
observed on April 23, Saint George’s Day. This date, which
can be traced to a mistake made by an 18th-century scholar,
has proved appealing to biographers because Shakespeare
died on the same date in 1616.
 He was the third of the eight children, and the eldest surviving
son.