How To Use Petrarch In A Sentence
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Petrarch is notoriously cool towards Dante and is often characterized as unimpressed with Dante’s so-called ‘humanist’ credentials.
Simon A. Gilson, Dante and Renaissance Florence (CUP, 2005)
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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She is the archetypal personification of the sonnet claim because she promises Petrarch poetic fame.
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This strict "Petrarchan" form has endured for six centuries.
A Study of Poetry
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But the ever-curious Petrarch nonetheless climbed 6, 000 feet and marveled at a new vista.
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But, however it was encountered, Italian - and specifically Petrarchan - poetry did have a profound effect upon Wyatt and subsequent lyric poets.
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Mark Pattison, a stout "Petrarchan," lays down these rules in the Preface to his edition of Milton's Sonnets:
A Study of Poetry
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Smith transforms Petrarch's conceit into an expansive metaphor for the Elegiac Sonnets and the way their poet mimics the nightingale's mournful song throughout.
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I was then reminded of A.C. de la Mare's remark about Petrarch's manuscripts: 'Over the years Petrarch must have acquired several hundred manuscripts and, to judge only from those so far identified, his collection must have been one of the largest and most important in private hands at any time before or since' The Handwriting of Italian Humanists, Vol. 1, fasc.
Francesco Petrarca, Canzoniere Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, ed & comm. Rosanna Bettarini (Turin, 2005)
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The literary standard came into being in the 14th century, largely through Dante's Divine Comedy and the works of Petrarch and Boccaccio .
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In the letter that directly precedes the epistle containing his translation, Petrarch presents a series of arguments contradicting Boccaccio's request that he take literary retirement on account of his old age.
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For his part, Petrarch had resuscitated such classical authors as Pliny the Younger, who in his private letters described his study — "cubiculi mei" — as located near the bedroom and furnished with an armarium containing books to be read "over and over again.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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May I suggest, that in honouring the promise you made your wife, the sonnet form you choose is the Italian Sonnet form, which is Petrarchan; so obviously will be in iambic pentameter, but the most comfortable and (in my opinion) elegant form: abbacddceffegg.
Roses and poems « Write Anything
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Romeo" means "pilgrim to Rome" and Mr. Goold's painstaking direction makes the most of the lovers 'word-playful exchange (in Petrarchan sonnet form, Act 1, scene V) where Romeo says, "My lips, two blushing pilgrims ready stand ...
Energetic 'Romeo and Juliet' Triumphs
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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.
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I figured him coming to meet me with his book in his hand, in his reverend poetic robes, and with his laurel on, over that curious kind of bandaging which he seems to have been fond of -- looking, in a word, for all the world like the neuralgic Petrarch in the pictures.
Italian Journeys
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The familiar semi-magical Petrarchan markers are in place – a forest where the weary lover-hunter will lose his way, the elusive and singular deer who is both prey and fatal enchantress.
Love in literature
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Petrarch dominates the first volume and is well represented in the others, with a six-section canzone cycle Standomi un giorno in a ‘narrative’, vibrantly declamatory style opening the second book.
Archive 2009-06-01
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He chose poetry a little away from the elegant tradition of Petrarch, often with many more emotional words, and this allowed him to develop a more concentrated and intense musical style.
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He concluded by quoting a line from a poem by Petrarch.
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These (as Petrarche writeth) haunte the outemoste borders, and shadowie partes of that countrie, wandering naked accordinge to their name, vp and downe, heather and theather studienge, and searching the natures of thinges, the course of the heauens, and the secretes of knowledge.
The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
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Nor is it obvious that unrequitedness resonates in Petrarchan lyric in quite the way it does in the literature of American conquest.
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May I suggest, that in honouring the promise you made your wife, the sonnet form you choose is the Italian Sonnet form, which is Petrarchan; so obviously will be in iambic pentameter, but the most comfortable and (in my opinion) elegant form: abbacddceffegg.
Roses and poems « Write Anything
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The intarsia panels of this door, created between 1476 and 1481, depict two other Famous Men, Dante and Petrarch, indicating that the main themes of the decoration were already established by 1476.
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Two English poets, Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, The Earl of Surrey effectively brought the form to the English language with their translations of Petrarch in the mid-16th Century.
John Lundberg: A Short History Of The Sonnet
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Moreover, following Cicero, Petrarch remarked on the closeness of “virtue” to the Latin word for man, vir, and thought that one probably derived from the other (Fam.,
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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Far more common are the direct iconographic or poetic references to the classical goddesses Diana, Cynthia and Astraea or to Petrarch's chaste maidens, Laura and Tuccia.
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In 1418 John de Newton, the church treasurer, bequeathed to the Chapter a number of books, including Bibles, commentaries, and patristical and historical works, as well as Petrarch's De remediis utriusque fortunae. 5.43 They were chained to the library desks, and were guarded with horn and studs, to protect them from the consequences of careless use by readers.
Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages
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In addition to reminding me of my own difficulties and insecurities when doing my first research as a graduate student (my friends are probably wearied of the tale of how Arthur Marotti justifiably disemboweled my first Shakespeare paper because of my misuse of the term "Petrarchan"), it also reminded me of how opaque academic culture can look from the outside.
Squire (and TORn)'s Academic Adventure
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While the parallels between the traditional lover-poet and this artist identify Pygmalion as the consummate Petrarchan, the Pygmalion text also exhibits an anxiety over producing idolatrous art.
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The Petrarchian Sonnet is not quite as successful, Cliburn's dynamics favoring mezzo-forte and forte a little too much throughout.
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The form and content are as rigid and unchangeable as a Petrarchan sonnet or a Noh play, starting with a young person having a premonition of a catastrophic accident that saves the lives of a number of people, most of them from his own circle.
Final Destination 5 – review
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The second quatrain of Smith's sonnet alludes to Petrarch's octave.
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Kaspar Campèll, who in the first half of the sixteenth century preached the Reformed religion in the Engadine.] [Footnote 4: I have translated and printed at the end of the second volume some sonnets of Petrarch as a kind of palinode for this impertinence.] [Footnote 5: This begs the question whether [Greek: leukoion] does not properly mean snowflake, or some such flower.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series
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To employ Vico'sterms, since I have used them to organize this book, Petrarch created the lyric poetry of the Aristocratic Age, which culminated in Goethe.
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Keeping an intimate relationship with the Christianity of various classes was Petrarch's major interpersonal relationship.
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He wrote heartfelt petrarchan sonnets extolling his employers, and in 1551 wrote awestruck from the reconquered Pisa, while painting the ducal children: "I am continually with these most saintly sovereigns, and I rejoice in the blessed sweetness of so good and benign a prince.
Bronzino's Medici portraits – review
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No wonder the Italian poet Petrarch, who idolised women, could not read her letters without exclamatory annotations in the margins.
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Earth's generations pass;: To which is added an anthology from Lyrics of war and peace, Some love songs of Petrarch, To-day and yesterday, and Songs of eventide, by William Dudley Foulke
OpEdNews - Diary: Make Love Not War
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Imitating the style of Dante and Petrarch, he wrote verses, "canzoni", and especially sonnets, which are not without value, and excite surprise by their warmth of feeling.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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Like Petrarch, he sonnetted his mistress, both before and after death.
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In literature, the Renaissance was led by humanist scholars and poets, notably Petrarch, Dante, and Boccaccio in Italy.
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The Petrarchian Sonnet is not quite as successful, Cliburn's dynamics favoring mezzo-forte and forte a little too much throughout.
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In a copy of the works of Petrarch in Latin, folio, 1501, occurs on the title: "Liber Antonij kressen juris vtriusq. doctoris emptus venecijs ligatus nurenberge Mcccccv;" and the noble old volume (now in the British Museum) is accompanied by a memoir of Kressen, printed about 1600, of uniform size, with a splendid portrait of the interesting Nüremberger.
The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time
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We have seen a similar process occurring in Petrarch's visionary poem, where Laura exteriorizes en passant the process of fashioning a poetic self.
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He also comments, showing the novel's glinting humor, that an opposing team's warm-up drills are "as crisp as Petrarchan sonnets.
Call Me Safe, Ishmael
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He wrote heartfelt petrarchan sonnets extolling his employers, and in 1551 wrote awestruck from the reconquered Pisa, while painting the ducal children: "I am continually with these most saintly sovereigns, and I rejoice in the blessed sweetness of so good and benign a prince.
Bronzino's Medici portraits – review
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Petrarch, of course, writes his sonnets in two parts: an octave and a sestet — in which the first eight lines pose a problem that the remaining six lines attempt to resolve.
Quick Review 07 : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
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His poetic tastes – a quatrain and a canzone stanza of Petrarch, an ottava by Ariosto, a Sannazaro poem and a pastoral in sestina a form he particularly liked – are typical of the period.
Archive 2009-06-01
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Through this essay, we can find out that the relationship between Petrarch and the Christianity involved different aspects of Petrarch's life.
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_Petrarche_ in a sonet which Sir _Thomas Wiat_ Englished excellently well, said in this figure by way of imprecation and obtestation: thus,
The Arte of English Poesie
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To the hero of the day," he said, "to the young poet who combines the gift of the _prosateur_ with the charm and poetic faculty of Petrarch in that sonnet-form which Boileau declares to be so difficult.
Lost Illusions
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Her poor, martyred heart is then subjected to all the glorious pains of unfulfilled love we associate with the Petrarchan traditions of the late Elizabethan era.
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It contains: Boccaccio's Vita di Dante;* Dante's Vita nova; Cavalcanti's Donna me prega with Dino del Garbo's commentary; Boccaccio's Ytalie iam certus honos; fifteen of Dante's lyric poems; Petrarch's Canzoniere the so-called 'forma Chigi'.
MS Chig. L. V. 176
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The subject matter ranges from dignified nature-poetry (Du Bellay) and Petrarchesque lyrics (Ronsard), through sententious and moralizing texts, to the familiar drinking-songs, some macaronic texts, and Rabelaisian amorous and bawdy narratives; no one wrote more amusing chansons of this last type (En un chasteau and Il esteoit une religieuse are excellent examples).
Archive 2009-06-01
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“To the hero of the day,” he said, “to the young poet who combines the gift of the prosateur with the charm and poetic faculty of Petrarch in that sonnet-form which
Eve and David
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[Footnote 1: 'Petrarch, finding nothing in the word eclogue of rural meaning, supposed it to be corrupted by the copiers, and therefore called his own pastorals aeglogues, by which he meant to express the talk of goatherds, though it will mean only the talk of goats.
Life Of Johnson
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This gallant monk, like another Petrarch, made the name of his mistress the subject of his amatorial meditations; and as the first called his Laura, his Laurel, this called his Polia, his Polita.
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)
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The description of the first meeting of Laura and Petrarch is perhaps the best, because the most simple and unlaboured part of his works.
Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808
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Italian Renaissance poet Petrarch; by the eighteenth century, the form was again revived and revised, this time serving as
Editorial Notes to 'Letter to the Women of England'
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Mock droned on about how the Collins poem has an allusion to someone named Petrarch and how the poem plays on sonnet love conventions.
Learning About Sonnets
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The contents of the second included copies of three of the Countess's psalm metaphrases, and, in all probability, a copy of her translation of Petrarch's Trionfo della Morte.
