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At his father's insistence, Petrarch first studied law at Montpellier, France, beginning in 1316. In 1320, he moved to Bologna, Italy, to continue these legal studies. He eventually abandoned his pursuit of law in 1326 following the death of his father, choosing instead to dedicate himself to his passion for literature and classical scholarship.1