The Renaissance
1341
PETRARCH BECOMES POET LAUREATE 1341
Poet and scholar Petrarch travels to Rome to be crowned poet laureate. His speech is considered to be the first manifesto of the Renaissance.
BOCCACCIO’S GREAT WORK 1350
The Italian writer Boccaccio pens the Decameron, a collection of short stories believed to be the first literary expression of humanist realism.
1420
RENAISSANCE PAPACY 1420
After decades in Avignon, the
