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By tradition scholars have often described the thoughts and works of leading figures as having ushered history from one great period to the next. Petrarch, for example, has been regarded as the first modern man due to his pursuits, the themes in his writings, his perspective on the world, and his general influence across Italy and parts of Europe. However, other forces and factors at work may do as much and perhaps more to explain the transition from one era to another; in this case, from the medieval to the Renaissance, or from the medieval to the modern. How might the Black Death (a.k.a. the Bubonic Plague) have been a key catalyst in this transition?