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Whose rediscovery of Cicero's letters is credited for initiating the 14th-century Renaissance?

  • Petrarch

  • Dante Alighieri

  • Geoffrey Chaucer

  • Thomas Aquinas

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Petrarch's rediscovery of Cicero's letters is often credited for initiating the 14th-century Renaissance in public affairs, humanism, and classical Roman culture. Cicero's works had a significant impact on the development of European languages and thought.
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