What is the meaning of Sonnet 104 by Francesco Petrarch?
The 'Sonetto 104' is perhaps the most passionate, agitated and dramatic of the three, based on the Sonnet Pace non trovo ('I find no peace…..' Canzone CXXXIV; sometimes erroneously noted as Sonnet 47). ... In it, the poet ponders the confused state love has put him in.
What did Petrarch do?
Petrarch was a scholar who laid the foundations for Renaissance humanism, which emphasized the study of Classical authors from antiquity over the Scholastic thinkers of the Middle Ages. He defended this idea to his more conservative contemporaries.