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  1. Jun 28, 2024 · Petrarch - Humanism, Poetry, Letters: Meanwhile, his reputation as a scholar was spreading; in September 1340 he received invitations from Paris and Rome to be crowned as poet.

    • John Humphreys Whitfield
  2. Jun 28, 2024 · Petrarch - Italian Poet, Humanist, Scholar: But the death of his closest friends, dislike of the newly elected pope, Innocent VI, increasingly bitter relations with the Avignon court, all finally determined Petrarch to leave Provence.

    • John Humphreys Whitfield
  3. Jul 2, 2024 · Petrarch showed great respect for the works and scholarship of classical antiquity. He believed that the study of Latin language was the root of poetry and other arts of classical antiquity and the basis of all knowledge.

  4. 6 days ago · Welcome to the Oregon Petrarch Open Book Project: "Petrarch is again in sight." In a poem dedicated to Osip Mandelstam, a Russian poet who disappeared in Stalin's Gulag, Paul Celan speaks of a petrified desert where it is still possible to see a rudimentary form that leads him to conclude: "Petrarch is again in sight."

  5. Jun 18, 2024 · In 1874, Francesco Fiorentino, one of the pioneers of the renewed studies on the Renaissance after the Unification of Italy, was invited to write an essay for a volume honoring the 500th anniversar...

  6. Jun 16, 2024 · In qual parte del cielo, in quale idea. HE EXTOLS THE BEAUTY AND VIRTUE OF LAURA. Say from what part of heaven 'twas Nature drew, From what idea, that so perfect mould To form such features,

  7. 2 days ago · HE HOPES THAT TIME WILL RENDER HER MORE MERCIFUL. If o'er each bitter pang, each hidden throe. Sadly triumphant I my years drag on, Till even the radiance of those eyes is gone, Lady, which star -like now illume thy brow; And silver'd are those locks of golden glow, And wreaths and robes of green aside are thrown, And from thy cheek ...