Francis Petrarch
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
Historical figure.
Francis Petrarch (20 july 1304 - 19 july 1374), born Francesco di Petracco, was a scholar from Arezzo and poet of the early Italian Renaissance, as well as one of the earliest humanists.
In the Sherlock Holmes stories
- In the train to Boscombe Valley, Sherlock Holmes had a pocket edition of Petrarch (BOSC 178).
