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==Legacy== [[File:Petrarca Tomb (Arqua).JPG|thumb|right|Petrarch's tomb at [[Arquà Petrarca]]]] Petrarch's influence is evident in the works of [[Serafino dell' Aquila|Serafino Ciminelli]] from [[L'Aquila|Aquila]] (1466–1500) and in the works of [[Marin Držić]] (1508–1567) from [[Dubrovnik]].<ref>Encyclopedia of the Renaissance: Class-Furió Ceriol, Vol. 2, p. 106, Paul F. Grendler, Renaissance Society of America, Scribner's published in association with the Renaissance Society of America, 1999. {{ISBN|978-0-684-80509-2}}</ref> The [[Romantic era|Romantic]] composer [[Franz Liszt]] set three of Petrarch's Sonnets (47, 104, and 123) to music for voice, ''Tre sonetti del Petrarca'', which he later would transcribe for solo piano for inclusion in the suite ''[[Années de Pèlerinage]]''. Liszt also set a poem by [[Victor Hugo]], "Oh! quand je dors" in which Petrarch and Laura are invoked as the epitome of erotic love. While in Avignon in 1991, [[Modernist]] composer [[Elliott Carter]] completed his solo flute piece ''Scrivo in Vento'' which is in part inspired by and structured by Petrarch's Sonnet 212, ''Beato in sogno''. It was premiered on Petrarch's 687th birthday.<ref>[http://www.patriciaspencerflute.com/images/CarterInterviewFQ.pdf Spencer, Patricia (2008) "Regarding ''Scrivo in Vento'': A Conversation with Elliott Carter"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304040236/http://www.patriciaspencerflute.com/images/CarterInterviewFQ.pdf |date=2016-03-04 }} ''Flutest Quarterly'' summer.</ref> In 2004, Finnish composer [[Kaija Saariaho]] crafted a miniature for solo piccolo flute titled ''Dolce tormento'',<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dolce Tormento {{!}} Kaija Saariaho |url=https://www.wisemusicclassical.com/work/19144/Dolce-Tormento--Kaija-Saariaho/ |access-date=2023-12-18 |website=www.wisemusicclassical.com |language=en}}</ref> in which the flutist whispers fragments of Petrarch's Sonnet 132 into the instrument.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-03-31 |title=Kaija Saariaho's Let the Wind Speak |url=https://www.musicandliterature.org/reviews/2016/3/31/kaija-saariahos-let-the-wind-speak |access-date=2023-12-18 |website=Music & Literature |language=en-US}}</ref> In November 2003, it was announced that [[pathology|pathological]] [[anatomy|anatomists]] would be exhuming Petrarch's body from his casket in [[Arquà Petrarca]], to verify 19th-century reports that he had stood 1.83 meters (about six feet), which would have been tall for his period. The team from the [[University of Padua]] also hoped to reconstruct his cranium to generate a computerized image of his features to coincide with his 700th birthday. The tomb had been opened previously in 1873 by Professor Giovanni Canestrini, also of Padua University. When the tomb was opened, the skull was discovered in fragments and a [[DNA]] test revealed that the skull was not Petrarch's,<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Caramelli D, Lalueza-Fox C, Capelli C, etal |title=Genetic analysis of the skeletal remains attributed to Francesco Petrarch |journal=Forensic Sci. Int. |volume=173 |issue=1 |pages=36–40 |date=November 2007 |pmid=17320326 |doi=10.1016/j.forsciint.2007.01.020 }}</ref> prompting calls for the return of Petrarch's skull. The researchers are fairly certain that the body in the tomb is Petrarch's due to the fact that the [[skeleton]] bears evidence of injuries mentioned by Petrarch in his writings, including a kick from a donkey when he was 42.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.upf.edu/bioevo/2007BioEvo/BE2007-Caramelli-FSI.pdf |title=UPF.edu |access-date=March 1, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090306013340/http://www.upf.edu/bioevo/2007BioEvo/BE2007-Caramelli-FSI.pdf |archive-date=March 6, 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref> === Numismatics === He is credited with being the first and most famous aficionado of [[numismatics]]. He described visiting Rome and asking peasants to bring him ancient coins they would find in the soil which he would buy from them, and writes of his delight at being able to identify the names and features of Roman emperors.{{cn|date=January 2025}}
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