The diary entry discusses how much the world has changed over the writer's lifetime due to discoveries in humanism, science, and knowledge. The writer believes Petrarch has had the biggest impact by starting the Renaissance and teaching that the world is not just about God, allowing other thinkers and inventors like Da Vinci, Galileo, and Gutenberg to contribute. Petrarch challenged the absolute power of the Church and Pope, giving people more freedom to investigate and learn.

1. December 31, 1550
Dear Diary,
Today is the end of the year, and 1534 will begin tomorrow. I am amazed at
how much our world has changed over my lifetime with new discoveries and
the work of so many people. Our world has changed with Humanism,
science and knowledge.
I believe that there is especially one individual that has changed our society
the most. I think that this person is Petrach because he’s the one that started
the Renaissance and taught us more about the world isn’t just god. Without
him, we will still live in the past and the life that everything that people do is
for god or to go to heaven.
This individual has especially change the lives of others by getting a new
start and a new change to the world. Also without him, there will be no
Leornado DaVinci paintings, Galileo’s theory, Helicopters and new inventions
because in the past, they were not allowed to investigate things that is not
related to god. Until Petrach and Erasmus came and told he world that the
pope and the church was just actually making up stories to let people lose
their freedom. That’s why he is what we call the ‘Father Of Humanism’.
My life has also changed because of this individual by have more and more
knowledge by reading books which I can afford because of Gutenberg’s
invention the ‘Printing Press’ which is also related to Petrach because he gave
the world freedom to do what they want. Which gave Johannes Gutenburg to
hav the opportunity to invent such a thoughful invention.
I think that this individual will change the future world because he may have
many more though and ideas that would probably make a huge change to
the world that would improve the technology or other things.