Casa Petrarca: small museum for lovers of literature and ancient charm
A cold saturday in January, gray and overcast skies, little desire for walks. Despite everything, I decide to leave and go a few meters from the cathedral of Arezzo to visit the birthplace of one of Italy’s most famous poets, Francesco Petrarca.
If one wants to dive back into the past, in a time without constant interaction in museums, without high-tech, without social networks, Casa Petrarca is the ideal place. Located in the heart of ancient Arezzo, right in the Borgo dell’Orto, one of the greatest poets of all time was born: Francesco Petrarca.
Today it is possible to visit the fourteenth-century rooms where the poet who contributed to writing the history of Italian language and literature was born in 1304, together with Dante Alighieri and Giovanni Boccaccio.
Casa Petrarca is now a small museum and headquarters of the Petrarch Academy of Letters, Arts and Sciences of Arezzo, which celebrates Petrarch’s greatness, his works and the influence of his art over the centuries.
For me, visiting his house is a bit like immersing myself in medieval Tuscany. The light in the museum halls is dim, it’s relatively cold, I’m the only visitor this morning and the whole atmosphere is almost surreal. When I go out I immediately have to check my cell phone. I search for the Instagram account of “CasaPetrarca” and find 384 followers. The first step towards the future was taken then.
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