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Who was Petrarch?The Italian poet Francesco Petrarca was celebrated for works in Latin and in Italian, and for bringing to light works of ancient Roman and Greek writers.
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Analysis of Petrarch's "Rima 189"Petrarch's Rime (the plural form of Rima) was rumored to be inspired by a woman named Laura de Noves. The story goes that on April 6, 1327, which was Good Friday
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Petrarch's Relationship with Classical AntiquityExploration of Petrarch's "friendship" with authors who have been dead for centuries -
Poetry Analysis: Comparison of Love Poems by Francesco Petrarch, Sir Thomas Wyatt, and Henry Howard, the Earl of SurreyPoems: "The long love that in my thought doth harbor" and "Love, that doth reign and live within my thought" Both of those sonnets are based on Petrarch's poem #140 in his Rime. Which is superior as a translation? -
A Look Back in TimeA brief look at famous figures of the past
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Tudor and Stuart as Sonnet SubjectsA look at how the lives of the Tudor and Stuart blood lines have inspired Renaissance to contemporary poetry, including the sonnet.
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Great Artists of the RenaissanceA brief overview of four major renaissance artists and their contributions to humanity -
Interpreting Sir Thomas Wyatt's Whoso List to Hunt: The Indirect Address of Translation and InterpretationSir Thomas Wyatt's "Whoso List to Hunt" is a masterpiece of subtle and indirect address. Couched within the translation of Petrarch lies a world of raw emotion and brutal political maneuvering. -
A Biography of Francesco PetrarcaFrancesco Petrarca's writing was innovative and advanced for his time. Petrarca, or Pertrarch, is known as one of the most influential writers in Italian history. Most of all, he is remembered for his mysterious love for a woman called Laura.
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Fontaine-de-Vaucluse: My Favorite Non-Hilltop Village in Provence, FranceAlong with France's largest spring, there is much of cultural as well as scenic interest in Fontaine-de-Vaucluse -
Old Love: Reflections on Edmund Spenser's Amoretti, Sonnet 34The perspective of years can temper the throes of passion, as Edmund Spencer shows in his Sonnet 34 from the Amoretti.
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