The old values of the fourteenth century were primarily concepts of the Roman Catholic Church. The transition from completely and only concerning the glory to God in heaven, to the relationship of personal satisfaction would be a triumphant shift of secular thought. Petrarch was very much a faithful Catholic and held strong to the ideology of the church and God’s control of the Universe, but he also believed God placed the beauty of nature here in the present for us to enjoy so we should live in the moment. Petrarch created parables through his stories and sonnets creating experiences of life which would represent our daily internal struggles with faith and belief. Petrarch truly believed everything pointed us to finding our purpose on earth.
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“The wish to see what so great an elevation had to offer.” He was adamant in his thoughts and chose the paths that seemed easy at first only to find they would become the most perilous. Petrarch compared his choices of the easy paths, and his brother’s choices of the most direct paths to the daily struggles “toward the blessed life.” Taking the road less traveled even when it seems the human nature of a lazy man would choose the longer path as more easily traversed, and a diligent man would choose the most direct. Petrarch compared his meeting with the shepherd, to meeting people on our daily journeys who try to disused us from continuing a journeys on faith and finding experiences of our youth important, rather than learning from the mistakes or enlightenment of an …show more content…
Petrarch imagines one side of his personality to be self-disciplined and judgmental similar to St Augustine, and his alter ego Franciscus, who he recognized as much more mortal and imperfect, much more humanistic. Through his inner struggle he brings up his most inner battles, how he knows he has done wrong but he must devoutly desire to no longer do wrong before he can ultimately correct it. Petrarch knows the heart of a man sometimes just wants to do wrong.
The teachings of Petrarch were monumental for his place and time. He was a man capable of change and his thoughts would create a bridge between the medieval views to the humanistic views of the Renaissance. Petrarch’s ideals and practices would become inspirational reading for centuries as the first of their kind to show the human man as he was,
“The wish to see what so great an elevation had to offer.” He was adamant in his thoughts and chose the paths that seemed easy at first only to find they would become the most perilous. Petrarch compared his choices of the easy paths, and his brother’s choices of the most direct paths to the daily struggles “toward the blessed life.” Taking the road less traveled even when it seems the human nature of a lazy man would choose the longer path as more easily traversed, and a diligent man would choose the most direct. Petrarch compared his meeting with the shepherd, to meeting people on our daily journeys who try to disused us from continuing a journeys on faith and finding experiences of our youth important, rather than learning from the mistakes or enlightenment of an …show more content…
Petrarch imagines one side of his personality to be self-disciplined and judgmental similar to St Augustine, and his alter ego Franciscus, who he recognized as much more mortal and imperfect, much more humanistic. Through his inner struggle he brings up his most inner battles, how he knows he has done wrong but he must devoutly desire to no longer do wrong before he can ultimately correct it. Petrarch knows the heart of a man sometimes just wants to do wrong.
The teachings of Petrarch were monumental for his place and time. He was a man capable of change and his thoughts would create a bridge between the medieval views to the humanistic views of the Renaissance. Petrarch’s ideals and practices would become inspirational reading for centuries as the first of their kind to show the human man as he was,