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Petrarch's and sonnets
In contrast, Petrarch's thought and style are relatively uniform throughout his life – he spent much of it revising the songs and sonnets of the Canzoniere rather than moving to new subjects or poetry.
The vast majority ( 317 ) of Petrarch's 366 poems collected in the Canzoniere ( dedicated to Laura ) were sonnets, and the Petrarchan sonnet still bears his name.
Together, Wyatt and Surrey, due to their excellent translations of Petrarch's sonnets, are known as " Fathers of the English Sonnet ".
Francis Petrarch became a friend of Simone's while in Avignon, and two of Petrarch's sonnets ( Canzoniere 96 and 130 ) make reference to a portrait of Laura de Noves that Simone supposedly painted for the poet ( according to Vasari ).
For verse he used Petrarch in preference to Petrarch's 16th-century imitators ; many of his madrigals set Petrarch's sonnets.
Petrarch's love sonnets certainly show the influence of his writing, and Aeneas Silvius ( the future Pope Pius II ) titled a collection of his youthful elegies " Cinthia ".
Moreover, Petrarch's own sonnets almost never had a rhyming couplet at the end as this would suggest logical deduction instead of the intended rational correlation of the form.
Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey are both known for their translations of Petrarch's sonnets from Italian into English.

Petrarch's and were
As the book fell open, Petrarch's eyes were immediately drawn to the following words:
His edition of Petrarch's Italian Poems, published by Aldus in 1501, and the Terzerime, which Aldus published in 1502, were also influential.
By this hypothesis, creation of the fictional poetess capitalized on the period's literary fascination with the classical poet Sappho and on a publication ( 1533 ) of poems attributed to Petrarch's " Laura " ( Laura de Sade ; the poems were in fact the work of a descendant of Laura ).
Many worked for the organized Church and were in holy orders ( like Petrarch ), while others were lawyers and chancellors of Italian cities-like Petrarch's disciple, Salutati, the Chancellor of Florence-and thus had access to book copying workshops.
The Petrarchists, or those who sang of love, imitating Petrarch's manner, were found already in the 14th century.
Many worked for the organized Church and were in holy orders ( like Petrarch ), while others were lawyers and chancellors of Italian cities, like Petrarch's disciple, Salutati, the Chancellor of Florence, and thus had access to book copying workshops.

Petrarch's and Europe
In 1362, shortly after the birth of a daughter, Eletta ( same name as Petrarch's mother ), they joined Petrarch in Venice to flee the plague then ravaging parts of Europe.

Petrarch's and during
While Petrarch's poetry was set to music frequently after his death, especially by Italian madrigal composers of the Renaissance in the 16th century, only one musical setting composed during Petrarch's lifetime survives.
Petrarch's Africa was composed independently of the Punica, as the manuscript was discovered by Poggio Bracciolini in 1417 at St. Gall during the Council of Constance.

Petrarch's and Renaissance
Later, Renaissance poets who copied Petrarch's style named this collection of 366 poems Il Canzoniere (" Song Book ").
Later, Renaissance poets who copied Petrarch's style named this collection of 366 poems Il Canzoniere (" Song Book ").
Delage-Toriel also notes that the names of Laura and Flora, possibly refer to well-known High Renaissance portraits of women by Titian and Giorgione, both evoking the Italian sonneteer Petrarch's unconsummated obsession with a woman named Laura.

Petrarch's and became
Petrarch's disciple, Giovanni Boccaccio, became a major author in his own right.

Petrarch's and model
In the 16th century, Pietro Bembo created the model for the modern Italian language based on Petrarch's works, as well as those of Giovanni Boccaccio, and, to a lesser extent, Dante Alighieri.
Shakespeare also popularized the English sonnet which made significant changes to Petrarch's model.

Petrarch's and for
He did not undertake further missions for Florence until 1365, and traveled to Naples and then on to Padua and Venice, where he met up with Petrarch in grand style at Palazzo Molina, Petrarch's residence as well as the place of Petrarch's library.
Petrarch's will ( dated April 4, 1370 ) leaves 50 florins to Boccaccio " to buy a warm winter dressing gown "; various legacies ( a horse, a silver cup, a lute, a Madonna ) to his brother and his friends ; his house in Vaucluse to its caretaker ; for his soul, and for the poor ; and the bulk of his estate to his son-in-law, Francescuolo da Brossano, who is to give half of it to " the person to whom, as he knows, I wish it to go "; presumably his daughter, Francesca, Brossano's wife.
The will mentions neither the property in Arquà nor his library ; Petrarch's library of notable manuscripts was already promised to Venice, in exchange for the Palazzo Molina.
Among them are Secretum (" My Secret Book "), an intensely personal, guilt-ridden imaginary dialogue with Augustine of Hippo ; De Viris Illustribus (" On Famous Men "), a series of moral biographies ; Rerum Memorandarum Libri, an incomplete treatise on the cardinal virtues ; De Otio Religiosorum (" On Religious Leisure ") and De Vita Solitaria (" On the Solitary Life "), which praise the contemplative life ; De Remediis Utriusque Fortunae (" Remedies for Fortune Fair and Foul "), a self-help book which remained popular for hundreds of years ; Itinerarium (" Petrarch's Guide to the Holy Land "); a number of invectives against opponents such as doctors, scholastics, and the French ; the Carmen Bucolicum, a collection of 12 pastoral poems ; and the unfinished epic Africa.
Petrarch's quest for love leads to hopelessness and irreconcilable anguish, as he expresses in the series of oxymorons in Rima 134 " Pace non trovo, et non ò da fa guerra ": " I find no peace, and yet I make no war :/ and fear, and hope: and burn, and I am ice "
The Romantic composer Franz Liszt set three of Petrarch's Sonnets ( 47, 104, and 123 ) to music for voice, Tre sonetti del Petrarca, which he later would transcribe for solo piano for inclusion in the suite Années de Pèlerinage.
In November, 2003, it was announced that pathological anatomists would be exhuming Petrarch's body from his casket in Arquà Petrarca, in order to verify 19th-century reports that he had stood 1. 83 meters ( about six feet ), which would have been tall for his period.
When the tomb was opened, the skull was discovered in fragments and a DNA test revealed that the skull was not Petrarch's, prompting calls for the return of Petrarch's skull.
Petrarch's Remedies for Fortune Fair and Foul A Modern English Translation of De remediis utriusque Fortune, with a Commentary.
This custom, first revived in Padua for Albertino Mussato, was followed by Petrarch's own crowning ceremony in the audience hall of the medieval senatorial palazzo on the Campidoglio on the 8th of April 1341.
Délie ( sometimes understood as an anagram for l ' idée ) is the first French " canzoniere " or poetic collection modeled after Petrarch's Canzoiere, a series of love poems addressed to a Lady.
Circa 1382-1389, Philippe de Mézières translated Petrarch's Latin text into French, adding a prologue which describes Griselda as an allegory of the Christian soul's unquestioning love for Jesus Christ.
The dialogue then turns to the question of Petrarch's seeming lack of free will, and Augustine explains that it is his love for temporal things ( specifically Laura ), and his pursuit of fame through poetry that " bind his will in adamantine chains ".
One of the earliest known records of taking pleasure in travel, of travelling for the sake of travel and writing about it, is Petrarch's ( 1304 – 1374 ) ascent of Mount Ventoux in 1336.

Petrarch's and poetry
His setting of Non al suo amante, written about 1350, is the only known contemporaneous setting of Petrarch's poetry ( Petrobelli 1975 ; Fischer and d ' Agostino 2001 ).
Their poetry was music to the eye, not to the ear, and their legacy is also apparent in Dante and Petrarch's lyrics.

Petrarch's and .
Petrarch even offered to purchase Boccaccio's library, so that it would become part of Petrarch's library.
The conception of a " rebirth " of Classical Latin learning is first credited to an Italian poet Petrarch, the father of Humanism, a term that was not coined until the 19th century, but the conception of a rebirth has been in common use since Petrarch's time.
Petrarch's younger brother was born in Incisa in Val d ' Arno in 1307.
Scholars note that Petrarch's letter to Dionigi displays a strikingly " modern " attitude of aesthetic gratification in the grandeur of the scenery and is still often cited in books and journals devoted to the sport of mountaineering.
The later part of Petrarch's life he spent in journeying through northern Italy as an international scholar and poet-diplomat.
Francesca married Francescuolo da Brossano ( who was later named executor of Petrarch's will ) that same year.
Petrarch's Virgil ( title page ) ( c. 1336 ) Illuminated manuscript by Simone Martini, 29 x 20 cm Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan.
There is little definite information in Petrarch's work concerning Laura, except that she is lovely to look at, fair-haired, with a modest, dignified bearing.
Petrarch's is a world apart from Dante and his Divina Commedia.
The strong moral and political convictions which had inspired Dante belong to the Middle Ages and the libertarian spirit of the commune ; Petrarch's moral dilemmas, his refusal to take a stand in politics, his reclusive life point to a different direction, or time.
Finally, Petrarch's enjambment creates longer semantic units by connecting one line to the following.
Petrarch's influence is evident in the works of Serafino Ciminelli from Aquila ( 1466-1500 ) and in the works of Marin Držić ( 1508-1567 ) from Dubrovnik.

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