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Petrarch: a splendid excess.(Book Review)
This year marks the seventh centenary of Petrarch's birth, on July 20, 1304, in the town of Arezzo. The son of an exile--his father Petracco was of Dante's generation and exiled from Florence in the same wave--Petrarch was to spend his life in restless peregrination, moving back and forth from Italy to France and venturing at times as far afield as the Netherlands and Prague. In "A Letter to Posterity" he states (in J. G. Nichols's translation), "I was never able to stay still; and I went not so much from the desire to see once more what I had already seen a thousand times, but, as sick men do, endeavouring to cope with tedium by a change of scene." In fact, tedium--or ...
- Gain A Panoramic Overview Of Health And Healthy Living From Classical Antiquity...
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire January 30, 2008 700+ words
...Health And Healthy Living From Classical Antiquity Through To The Mid-Nineteenth...health and healthy living from classical Antiquity through to the mid-nineteenth...of Health in the Renaissance Petrarch's Conception of Health Alberti...
- Petrarch and His Readers in the Renaissance.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly Schildgen, Brenda Deen December 22, 2006 700+ words
...A. E. Enenkel and Jan Papy, eds. Petrarch and His Readers in the Renaissance...Friends and Foes of the Poet Laureate: Petrarch and His Readers in the Renaissance...and Jan Papy, the volume explores how Petrarch's writings were received in the Renaissance...
- Petrarch in Britain: Interpreters, Imitators, and Translators over 700...
- Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review Richardson, Brian October 1, 2008 700+ words
Petrarch in Britain: Interpreters, Imitators, and...Academy in 2004 to mark the seventh centenary of Petrarch's birth. The opening essay, by Piero Boitani, is about Britain as seen by Petrarch. For him, the Britons belonged of course...
- Petrarch's Guide to the Holy Land: Itinerary to the Sepulcher of Our Lord Jesus...
- Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly Rawski, Conrad H. March 22, 2004 700+ words
Francesco Petrarch. Petrarch's Guide to the Holy Land: Itinerary to the Sepulcher of Our Lord...bibl. $37.50. ISBN: 0-268-03873-2. This edition of Petrarch's short guidebook to Jerusalem and the Holy Land, probably earlier...
- Petrarch's 'Remedies for Fortune Fair and Foul': A Modern English Translation...
- Magazine article from: Medium Aevum Panizza, Letizia September 22, 1993 700+ words
Rawski's translation of Petrarch's largest moral work, a collection...good or bad luck, is a landmark in Petrarch studies. It is the first modern English...as he himself hopes, to reinstate Petrarch's work 'within the mainstream of...
- The Worlds of Petrarch.
- Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly Mazzocco, Angelo September 22, 1997 700+ words
...medieval world he was transforming, Petrarch is one of the most elusive and complex...and forever contradictory writings of Petrarch have been the subject of much speculation...Giuseppe Mazzotta's The Worlds of Petrarch is a valuable addition to the rich Petrarchan...
- Petrarch's Guide to the Holy Land: 'Itinerary to the Sepulcher of Our Lord...
- Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review Lepschy, Laura July 1, 2004 700+ words
Petrarch's Guide to the Holy Land: 'Itinerary...within the Italian literary canon, on Petrarch's travels and his subsequent accounts...the compilation of this Itinerarium. Petrarch was invited by his friend Giovanni Mandelli...
- Petrarch's Genius: Pentimento and Prophecy.
- Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly Barolini, Teodolinda June 22, 1994 700+ words
...refusal to accept the stereotypes of Petrarch criticism is laudable but unfortunately...asserting that our collective failure to take Petrarch seriously as a theologian and prophet...misinterpretation thus reverts not to scholars of Petrarch but to those who are not scholars of...