This intriguing historical sequel is set in fourteenth-century France and Italy and deals with the social background and developments during the life of writer, Latinist and diplomat FRANCESCO PETRARCA (1304-1374), who is considered the founder of the humanist Renaissance.

A versatile intellectual with a passion for poetry and the rediscovery of Greek and Latin writings, he is the central figure in the transition from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance.

It gradually becomes clear when and why the Middle Ages came to an end, and how and why the 'Third Period' predicted by the Italian mystic and monk Joachim of Fiore (1135-1202) dawned: the Humanist Renaissance as a breakthrough to the Enlightenment and Modern Times.