Learning to Live With Invidia: What Petrarch Has To Teach Us About Envy

Learning to Live With Invidia: What Petrarch Has To Teach Us About Envy

Although Francesco Petrarch grew up near Giotto’s city of Florence, he spent the last years of his life in Arqua’Parcheggio, a village just outside Padua. Along with Giovanni Boccaccio and Dante Alighieri he was one of the three crowns of Italian literature, writers considered the successors of Virgil, Horace and Cicero. Petrarch wrote poems, letters and treatises, but he was also a famous conversationalist. He’s credited with coining the term ‘…