This author wrote a work in hexameter about the Second Punic War entitled Africa, but he's better known for a poetic form combining an ABBA octave with two tercets.
This author left a series of nineteen letters critical of the Avignon papacy out of a larger collection of Familiar Letters. This writer claimed that he climbed a mountain purely to see the view in a letter about his ascent of Mont Ventoux. This author wrote a work in hexameter about the Second Punic War entitled Africa, but he's better known for a poetic form combining an ABBA octave with two tercets. This poet wrote more than three hundred of those poems in the Canzoniere, addressed to his unrequited love Laura. For 10 points, name this Italian poet, the creator of a namesake sonnet.
This author left a series of nineteen letters critical of the Avignon papacy out of a larger collection of Familiar Letters.
Francesco Petrarca [or Petrarch]