Who Was Alive

Petrarch

Italian scholar and poet

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

Who was alive at the same time as Petrarch?

  1. Marco Polo
  2. Osman I
  3. Dante Alighieri
  4. Giotto
  5. William of Ockham
  6. Ibn Battuta
  7. Petrarch
  8. Giovanni Boccaccio
  9. Hafez
  10. Ibn Khaldun
  11. Timur
  12. Geoffrey Chaucer
  13. Zheng He
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Petrarch was born, Marco Polo was 49, Ibn Battuta was under a year old and Osman I was 45.

When Petrarch died, Ibn Khaldun was 41 or 42, Timur was 38, Zheng He was 2 or 3 and Giovanni Boccaccio was 60 or 61.

Born during Petrarch’s lifetime: Geoffrey Chaucer, Ibn Khaldun, Hafez, Timur, Zheng He and Giovanni Boccaccio.

Not quite contemporaries: Saadi died 12 years before Petrarch was born, Kublai Khan died 10 years before Petrarch was born, Donatello was born 10 years after Petrarch died and Roger Bacon died 12 years before Petrarch was born.

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