Petrarch Is Considered Perhaps the Most Influential Individual of the Early

Multiple Choice

Petrarch is considered perhaps the most influential individual of the early Renaissance because he:

A) traveled extensively to exotic lands and conducted meticulous excavations, increasing public interest in the past.
B) considered the remote past an ideal of perfection, and argued that moral philosophy could be found within ancient classical civilizations.
C) argued that the concept of God had become increasingly irrelevant to explanations of the natural world.
D) discovered ancient Paleolithic handaxes in association with extinct mammal skeletons, thereby establishing the antiquity of humanity.