# De sui ipsius et multorum ignorantia attacks the Venetian scholastic circle

Date: 1367

## The fact

In 1367 [Petrarch](/people/petrarch) wrote De sui ipsius et multorum ignorantia after Venetian critics measured him against Aristotle. It is not Sine nomine’s Babylon and not a unique curriculum reform. Polarisation: humanism versus scholastic science as public insult.

## Context

He was a guest in Venice’s world after Milan. Shared with the unnamed ‘many’. Medium confidence on harm to learning; high on the text. Distinct from physician-invective.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. De ignorantia is not Babylon-letters and not contra medicum. Mixed effects of De sui ipsius et multorum ignorantia attacks the Venetian scholastic circle are separate paths.

## Evidence and sources

Treccani at https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/francesco-petrarca/ lists De ignorantia. Britannica at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Petrarch independently frames later polemics. Latin Library neighbourhood at https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/petrarch.html.

Official or archival record: Treccani — Francesco Petrarca (https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/francesco-petrarca/; Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana).

## Significance

Anti-scholastic invective is a polarisation path of medium confidence and modest weight. Mixed: it also defends moral wisdom against a certain Aristotle-cult.

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

## What is established and what is not

Established: 1367 De ignorantia. Not established: a unique faculty split series. Distinct from Sine nomine. 1367 Venetian Aristotle quarrel, treatise on his own and many people’s ignorance, not Avignon Babylon. Official locator https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/francesco-petrarca/ is not independent locator https://www.britannica.com/biography/Petrarch. Later Italian nationalism and UNESCO files are not this lifetime instrument. 1367 Venetian Aristotle quarrel, treatise on his own and many people’s ignorance, not Avignon Babylon. Official locator https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/francesco-petrarca/ is not independent locator https://www.britannica.com/biography/Petrarch. Later Italian nationalism and UNESCO files are not this lifetime instrument. 1367 Venetian Aristotle quarrel, treatise on his own and many people’s ignorance, not Avignon Babylon. Official locator https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/francesco-petrarca/ is not independent locator https://www.britannica.com/biography/Petrarch. Later Italian nationalism and UNESCO files are not this lifetime instrument.

Shared responsibility is part of De sui ipsius et multorum ignorantia attacks the Venetian scholastic circle. Naming Petrarch does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1367-01-01 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.

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

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

## People

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

## Drivers

- Political Polarization: https://factrail.ai/drivers/political-polarization

## Sources

- https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/francesco-petrarca/
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Petrarch

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/pet-de-ignorantia