Petrarch's

Some of Petrarch's contemporaries thought she was just a symbol and a pretext, though on the flyleaf of his Virgil he noted not only the date of his original glimpse of her but also that 20 years later he had news of her death in the plague – and a passing remark implies she was married and might have been worn out over the years with childbearing.

Love in literature 2011

From that moment of encounter in Avignon anyway – whether mythic or actual - flowed the inspiration for the Rime Sparse, written over the next quarter of a century: poems dwelling on Petrarch's helpless love for Laura, his dreaming and desires, his excited and jaded senses, his dismay at his own ageing and his grief over Laura's death – and on the work of poetry, forging its tribute to her.

Love in literature 2011

Whether Petrarch's Laura was real or not is a question for the margins of poetry.

Love in literature 2011

This is, I suspect, a faint echo, almost a variation of, Petrarch's famous line, "Chiare fresche e dolci acque" "Clear, fresh and sweet waters".

Giving new voice to Leopardi's songs of love and longing Michael Dirda 2010

Federico possessed two copies of Petrarch's De vita solitaria, one of which (Urb.Lat. 377) he had inherited from his grandfather, Antonio da Montefeltro (1348 – 1404).

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

Modeled after Petrarch's sonnets but original in tone and diction, his poetry often includes artistic metaphors and vivid evocations of his emotional suffering.

The Frugal Genius Cammy Brothers 2010

Modeled after Petrarch's sonnets but original in tone and diction, his poetry often includes artistic metaphors and vivid evocations of his emotional suffering.

The Frugal Genius Cammy Brothers 2010

This is, I suspect, a faint echo, almost a variation of, Petrarch's famous line, "Chiare fresche e dolci acque" "Clear, fresh and sweet waters".

Giving new voice to Leopardi's songs of love and longing Michael Dirda 2010

Modeled after Petrarch's sonnets but original in tone and diction, his poetry often includes artistic metaphors and vivid evocations of his emotional suffering.

The Frugal Genius Cammy Brothers 2010

Note 28: Including a fresco executed by Altachiero (ca. 1400) in the palace of Francesco il Vecchio da Carrara in Padua (see Cheles, Studiolo of Urbino, fig. 90) and illuminations from manuscripts of Petrarch's works, such as the De viris illustribus.

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008