# Francesco da Carrara’s Paduan lordship shelters the last years

Date: 1368

## The fact

Francesco da Carrara, lord of Padua, was the protector of [Petrarch](/people/petrarch)’s last Paduan-Arquà years, a signorial shelter that let the library continue.

## Context

A famous old man gets a hill-house; unnamed Paduans do not. Shared with Carrara. Distinct from Visconti, a harsher court in his friends’ eyes, still the same structure of letters-for-protection.

## Evidence and sources

Casa del Petrarca page at https://padovacultura.padovanet.it/en/musei/casa-del-petrarca locates the Carrara-linked house. Britannica at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Petrarch independently places the last Paduan years. Treccani restates Carrara.

Official or archival record: Casa del Petrarca — Arquà (Padova Cultura) (https://padovacultura.padovanet.it/en/musei/casa-del-petrarca; Comune di Padova / Padova Cultura).

## Significance

Signorial shelter is an inequality path of high confidence and modest weight. It does not cancel the books. Mixed by definition.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## What is established and what is not

Established: Carrara protection in the last Paduan years. Not established: a unique gift-charter day in this field. Year-level 1368. Official locator https://padovacultura.padovanet.it/en/musei/casa-del-petrarca is not independent locator https://www.britannica.com/biography/Petrarch. Later Italian nationalism and UNESCO files are not this lifetime instrument. Official locator https://padovacultura.padovanet.it/en/musei/casa-del-petrarca is not independent locator https://www.britannica.com/biography/Petrarch. Later Italian nationalism and UNESCO files are not this lifetime instrument. Official locator https://padovacultura.padovanet.it/en/musei/casa-del-petrarca is not independent locator https://www.britannica.com/biography/Petrarch. Later Italian nationalism and UNESCO files are not this lifetime instrument.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Carrara clientage is not the Arquà library as education and not Visconti Milan. Mixed effects of Francesco da Carrara’s Paduan lordship shelters the last years are separate paths.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

The attached driver is [income-inequality](/drivers/income-inequality). The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Shared responsibility is part of Francesco da Carrara’s Paduan lordship shelters the last years. Naming Petrarch does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1368-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

## People

- Petrarch: https://factrail.ai/people/petrarch

## Drivers

- Income Inequality: https://factrail.ai/drivers/income-inequality

## Sources

- https://padovacultura.padovanet.it/en/musei/casa-del-petrarca
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Petrarch

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/pet-carrara-clientage