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Francescuolo da Brossano
Francescuolo da Brossano was the son-in-law and heir of the Italian medieval poet Petrarch.Born in Milan, Francescuolo was named executor of Petrarch's testamentum. He married Petrarch's daughter Francesca in 1361, the same year Giovanni died of the plague. Petrarch moved to Venice in the fall of...
lived with their family along with the famous poet 1362 - 1367.
The idea of living in Venice came to Petrarch through his deep admiration for it. He considered it the miracle of civitas. Petrarch had many friends from Venice, especially in the chancellery
Chancellor
Chancellor is the title of various official positions in the governments of many nations. The original chancellors were the Cancellarii of Roman courts of justice—ushers who sat at the cancelli or lattice work screens of a basilica or law court, which separated the judge and counsel from the...
. One very special Venetian friend of diplomatic rank was Grand Chancellor Benintendi de Ravagnani. He helped establish the Library of St Mark from Petrarch's library
Petrarch's library
The poet Petrarch arranged to leave his personal library to the city of Venice; but it never arrived. The Venetian tradition that this was the founding of the Biblotheca Marciana is an anachronism; it was founded a century later.-Petrarch's books:...
material archive
Archive
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d here, which people are told that visit the Palazzo, formed the basis for this famous library.