For 10 points, identify this Renaissance humanist and author of an epic poem about Scipio, who wrote many poems addressed to his abstract personification of love Laura in his Canzoniere.
In one work, this author imagines a world where "shall be," "has been" and "never" do not exist, and where "a world made new and eternal" is described. Another of this man's works, written in twelve parts, digresses on Galathea and Daedalus while providing a description of "Amor pastorius." In addition to the "Triumph of Eternity," this author wrote a dialogue between Augustine and himself in the presence of Lady Truth that is one of three works that comprises his "Inner Secret." He wrote two epistles to Cicero after discovering a collected manuscript of his letters, and he pioneered an autobiographical form with a work that describes seeing the Cevennes with his brother after climbing Mount Ventoux. For 10 points, identify this Renaissance humanist and author of an epic poem about Scipio, who wrote many poems addressed to his abstract personification of love Laura in his Canzoniere.
In one work, this author imagines a world where "shall be," "has been" and "never" do not exist, and where "a world made new and eternal" is described.
Francesco Petrarca or Petrarch