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| c. 1307 |
| | Dante, in exile from Florence, begins work on The Divine Comedy - completing it just before his death, 14 years later | |
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| 1327 |
| | Petrarch glimpses Laura in a church in Avignon and falls helplessly in love with her - or so he tells us | |
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| 1341 |
| | A laurel wreath is placed on the brow of Petrarch in Rome, in a renewal of interest in the classical world | |
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| 1462 |
| | In keeping with his personal interest in Plato, Cosimo de' Medici founds a Platonic Academy in Florence | |
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| 1487 |
| | Boiardo publishes a romantic epic, Orlando Innamorato, about Roland's love for a bewitching princess | |
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| 1516 |
| | Ariosto, in Orlando Furioso, tells of Roland's madness when he is abandoned by the pagan princess Angelica | |
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| 1581 |
| | Tasso, in Gerusalemme Liberata ('Jerusalem Liberated'), turns the first crusade into a romantic epic | |
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| c. 1740 |
| | Italian dramatist Carlo Goldoni makes a success of plays in the ancient commedia dell'arte tradition | |
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| 1821 |
| | English poet John Keats dies in Rome at the age of twenty-five | |
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| 1825 |
| | Italian author Alessandro Manzoni begins publication (completed 1827) of his novel I Promessi Sposi ('The Betrothed') | |
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