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    Petrarch wanted to immerse himself in Roman antiquity by adopting classical ways of thinking, feeling, and writing rather than the unpolished Latin of the Middle Ages. He revived words, structures, figures of speech and stories from Latin classics by giving them new life in Europe. Petrarch had intellectual independence and used the classics to inform his aesthetic, political and moral perspective.

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    Petrarch wanted to immerse himself in Roman antiquity by adopting classical ways of thinking, feeling, and writing rather than the unpolished Latin of the Middle Ages. He revived words, structures, figures of speech and stories from Latin classics by giving them new life in Europe. Petrarch had intellectual independence and used the classics to inform his aesthetic, political and moral perspective.

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    Petrarch wanted to immerse himself in Roman antiquity by adopting classical ways of thinking, feeling, and writing rather than the unpolished Latin of the Middle Ages. He revived words, structures, figures of speech and stories from Latin classics by giving them new life in Europe. Petrarch had intellectual independence and used the classics to inform his aesthetic, political and moral perspective.

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    Petrarch wanted to pull himself out of the physical and mental world around him to live imaginatively in

    Roman antiquity
    •He loved the classical ways of feeling, thinking, and writing
    •He admired the polish, elegance, and perfection of form of the Classics as opposed to the un-Roman
    Latin of the Middle Ages

    •He took words, methods of sentence structure, figures of speech, and stories from the Latin classics
    and gave them a new European life
    •Petrarch had intellectual autonomy and an aesthetic, political, and moral outlook on life

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