Who Was Alive

Were Dante Alighieri and Petrarch alive at the same time?

Yes. Dante Alighieri and Petrarch were alive at the same time for 17 years, from 1304 to 1321.

Petrarch was 17 when Dante Alighieri died.

Dante Alighieri

Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher

Born c. 1265 · died 14 September 1321

Petrarch

Italian scholar and poet

Born 20 July 1304 · died 19 July 1374, aged 69

  1. Rumi
  2. Thomas Aquinas
  3. Marco Polo
  4. Dante Alighieri
  5. Ibn Battuta
  6. Petrarch
  7. Ibn Khaldun
  8. Geoffrey Chaucer
Dante Alighieri and Petrarch in bold, with some of their best-known contemporaries. Drag across to see the age each reached in any year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.