Petrarch's Virgil (title page) c. 1336 Manuscript. Thanks to Petrarch's sonnets we know that the poet and the painter became very good friends. Simone martini must undoubtedly have been influenced by the proto-Humanist cultural world of Petrarch, and we can see clearly how the manuscript illumination of Petrarch's Virgil in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan

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