Petrarch

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an Italian poet famous for love lyrics (1304-1374)

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nectar than he, such as Leopardi influenced by Petrarch's planctus,

hardly mentions Petrarch and focuses mainly on his status as a Classic

The bard of love: Memory and antiquity in Petrarch

Poetic disappointment is not new with Petrarch. Nor am I focusing simply on a sense of unsuccessful striving, of passionate desire and an equally passionate sense of falling short.

It is not simply that Petrarch can't be Petrarch without losing Laura.

Performing Failure in Petrarch's Rerum vulgarium fragmenta

Petrarch's Fragmenta: The Narrative and Theological Unity of 'Rerum vulgarium fragmenta'.

A welcome contribution to Petrarch studies, Petrarch's Fragmenta brings together several critical approaches that are rarely undertaken by any one scholar.

Thomas Peterson. Petrarch's Fragmenta: The Narrative and Theological Unity of 'Rerum vulgarium fragmenta'

Sir Philip Sidney's Astrophil and Stella (1581-82, though not printed until 1591) was neither the first sonnet sequence in English nor by itself the first Elizabethan attempt to imitate Petrarch's Rime sparse.

At the start of Astrophil and Stella, as he concludes the first and introductory sonnet itself, Sidney has the protagonist who re-presents or personates him indicate that to write authentically of love is to write with consciousness of Petrarch; in fact, that Petrarch's Rime sparse all but offers the natural way to articulate a lover's experience.

Cupid, Choice, and Rewriting Petrarch in the Early Sonnets of Astrophil and Stella

If Petrarch did continue to write the tribune with such frequency, with very few exceptions any trace of such voluminous correspondence is lost to us now.

Writing the revolution: Petrarch and the tribunate of Cola di Rienzo

Lee examines the relationship between Augustine and Petrarch by way of different themes: Petrarch's approach to literary imitation; the place of Augustine in the Secretum regarding reason, will, and the meditatio mortis; Augustine's influence regarding the themes of the virtuous life and friendship as found in Petrarch's De otio religioso, De vita solitaria, and the De remediis utriusque fortune; and finally the connection between Augustine's De doctrina Christiana and Petrarch's conception of eloquence and moral philosophy.

Petrarch and St. Augustine: Classical Scholarship, Christian Theology and the Origins of the Renaissance in Italy

Marsh (Rutgers U.) collects 19 essays and articles first published between 1983 and 2010 on two pillars of the Italian Renaissance: Francesco Petrarca, or Petrarch (1304-74) and Leon Battista Alberti (1404-72).

Studies on Alberti and Petrarch

Petrarch's Humanism and the Care of the Self, by Gur Zak.

Petrarch's Humanism and the Care of the Self

in Italian from Dante and Petrarch, Rossetti literally incorporates and

Laura's Laurels: Christina Rossetti's "Monna Innominata" 1 and 8 and Petrarch's Rime sparse 85 and 1

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