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The man who turned unrequited love into a literary career and never even got the girl.
means Francesco Petrarca, a 14th-century Italian poet whose sonnets to Laura defined Renaissance love poetry and humanism.
from From the Italian Francesco Petrarca, born 1304 in Arezzo; he latinized himself into the scholar's pantheon.
Sonnet shapeHis rhyme scheme is literally called Petrarchan.
One museWrote 366 poems for Laura, mostly from afar.
Humanism founderHunted lost Roman texts, sparking the Renaissance.
Crowned poetLaureate in Rome, 1341, with a borrowed laurel.