My parents were honourable folk, Florentine in their origin, of medium fortune, or, I may as well admit it, in a condition verging upon poverty. They had been expelled from their native city, and consequently I was born in exile, at Arezzo, in the year 1304 of this latter age which begins with Christ's birth, July the twentieth, on a Monday, at dawn.

Petrarch never did marry and the identity the mother of his two children is unknown. His son Giovanni died of the plague in Avignon, and his grandson Francesco died at the age of 2. His brother Giovanni was a monk and never had children.

Anyone having a further family tree of his grand daughter Eletta or of his ancestors please contact me and let me know.