an Italian poet famous for love lyrics (1304-1374)

a 14th-century writer whose poem I Trionfi describes a series of allegorical triumphs (Love, Chastity, Death, Fame, Time, and Eternity) somewhat reminiscent of the tarot sequence.

Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) (July 20, 1304 – July 19, 1374) was an Italian scholar, poet, and early humanist. Petrarch is often popularly called the "father of humanism".There are many popular examples, for a recent one see Carol Everhart Quillen's http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=15299 Rereading the Renaissance (1998), University of Michigan Press. See also the list of people known as father or mother of something.