The Italian Renaissance poet and prosaist, connoisseur of ancient culture and classical filology, F. Petrarca (1304-1374) is called the father of humanism. As a traveller on various diplomatic missions throughout the Europe he stayed with the Emperor Charles IV in Prague in 1355; the correspondence between them as well between Petrarca and the Archbishop Arnošt of Pardubice and the Chancellor Jan of Streda contributed to the development of humanism in the Czech lands.
700th Birth Anniversary
