The Guardian

Petrarch - the poet who lost his head

Of all the world's great writers, Petrarch is the best known for losing his head. On Good Friday in 1327, the then 23-year-old writer and scholar fell madly - and forlornly - in love with a woman he ...
The Atlantic

Francis Petrarch, 1304-1904

Six hundred years ago, on the 20th of July, 1304, a little Florentine baby was born into exile in a house on Via deli’ Orto in Arezzo, whither his father, banished from Florence, had fled. Civil war ...
JSTOR Daily

Translating Petrarch's Poetry: L’Aura del Petrarca from the Quattrocento to the 21st Century

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Yahoo

‘I have no wish to make war’: why it’s time to remember the forgotten Father of Humanism

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Canzoniere: 'Peace I do not find, and I have no wish to make war' - INTERFOTO / Alamy Stock Photo Today marks the 650th ...
The New Criterion

Petrarch: a splendid excess

On Francesco Petrarch’s love, hate, and precision of feeling. The outer restlessness of his migratory life found its analogue in an inner turbulence which allowed him little of the peace he sought. It ...
NPR

Petrarch

Franz Liszt had his share of love affairs, and also his share of heartbreaks. Perhaps that's what drew him to the work of Petrarch, and his many sonnets about love. From a recital at the 2006 Aspen ...
JSTOR Daily

The Worlds of Petrarch

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