How To Use Petrarch In A Sentence
- Francesco Petrarch lived in the later mediaeval period in Italy, at that time the Christianity was very widespread, and many people believed in the Christian religion in Italy.
- Earlier on he had sought to dismiss the moral qualms by learned allusions to cultural relativism (in East India, “Lepcha old men of eighty copulate with girls of eight, and nobody minds”) and literary history (Dante with nine-year-old Beatrice, Petrarch with twelve-year-old Laura, Poe with thirteen-year-old Virginia). The enactment of moral experience
- Petrarch, even more truly than with the kindly Boccaccio, that the purely literary life, and that dilettanteism, which is the twin sister of scepticism, began. Among My Books Second Series
- Sophist in Petrarchan and Promethean trappings and alluding freely to Byron's biography, Hemans leaves little doubt that her target is Scepticism and Its Costs: Hemans's Reading of Byron
- She is the archetypal personification of the sonnet claim because she promises Petrarch poetic fame.
- This strict "Petrarchan" form has endured for six centuries. A Study of Poetry
- But the ever-curious Petrarch nonetheless climbed 6, 000 feet and marveled at a new vista.
- But, however it was encountered, Italian - and specifically Petrarchan - poetry did have a profound effect upon Wyatt and subsequent lyric poets.
- Mark Pattison, a stout "Petrarchan," lays down these rules in the Preface to his edition of Milton's Sonnets: A Study of Poetry
- That this debate would be directly relevant to Michelangelo's poetry, let alone to Petrarch's, is a stretch that might have made literary critics blench.