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1. Francesco Petrarca

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   Petrarca is widely regarded as the Father of Humanism humanism due to his relentless pursuit and recovery of classical manuscripts. He championed the studia humanitatis, emphasizing rhetoric, history, poetry, and moral philosophy. His recovery of Cicero’s letters, for instance, established a new standard for textual criticism, revealing that classical authors were men of flesh and blood, rather than monolithic repositories of abstract wisdom.
   Petrarca famously employed a rigorous form of paleographical analysis, arguing that variations in manuscript style directly co…