This piece of art happens to be the most famous artwork done by Sandro Botticelli. Venus is depicted as a long haired nude woman that drifts from the famous artworks of the period where nudity was not normally done and its divergence from the norm also appears to push it into fame. ... There are also clear references of Sandro's painting from Angelo Poliziano's poem Stanze per la Giostra. The manner in which the painting is arranged resembles a scene in the poem which appears to have been the theme behind the painting. ... The poem also happens to be a form of artistic creations whic...

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Their courtship was the start Of one of the worlds most famous romances. ... In Pisa and Florence they had a son "Pen" Browning in 1849, the same year his collected poems were published. Elizabeth inspired Brownings collection of poems Men and Women in (1855), which he dedicated to her. ... Robert Browning did not mostly become famous until after his wife died. ...

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Francesco Petrarch's poetry had a great effect on the poems of later poets such as Shakespeare and Chaucer. His works were considered to be the first "modern" poems and the inventor of the sonnet, writing over 300 sonnets. ... He enjoyed the decedent life as an aristocrat at Avignon, and there on Good Friday 1327 he saw for the first time Laura, the lady who was to be the inspiration and subject of his most famous works. ... Here Petrarch found the peace and the inspiration that produced some of his best poems. ... He wrote a series of poems titled "Poems after Laura's death." ...

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Many historians consider him the "modern man" because of his innovative poems focusing on individuality. ... Although Petrach is well known, today, for his poetry, he is also famous for his contribution to the humanist literary and cultural movement of the 14th and 15th centuries. ... He was responsible for discovering several texts and letters by the Roman author Cicero, who's Brutus became one of the most famous books of the time. ...

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