1. CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Francesco Petrarch (Catholic Encyclopedia)Category Society Religion and Spirituality P......Francesco petrarch. All the leading accounts of Italian literary history dealfully with petrarch; see among others GASPARY, Storia della let. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11778a.htm

Home Encyclopedia Summa Fathers ... P > Francesco Petrarch A B C D ... Z Francesco Petrarch White Guelphs Boccaccio , who, like himself, desired to promote humanistic studies and researches. Refusing an offer to assume the rectorship of the Florentine Studio (or University) just established, he resumed his peregrinations, spending a good part of the time at Venice, and accompanied there for a while by Boccaccio and by Leo Pilatus, from whom both he and Boccaccio had hoped to gain some direct knowledge of Greek and its literature. The transfer of the pontifical Court back to Rome in 1367 filled him with unbounded joy. In spite of the magnitude of Petrarch's composition in Latin and the stress which he put upon it himself, his abiding fame is based upon his Italian verse, and this forms two notable compilations, the "Trionfi" and the "Canzoniere". The "Trionfi", written in terza rima , and making large use of the vision already put to so good stead by Dante , is allegorical and moral in its nature. In the "Trionfi" we have a triumphal procession in which there take part six leading allegorical figures: Love, Chastity, Death, Fame, Time, and Divinity. Chastity triumphs over its predecessor, and finally Divinity triumphs over them all and remains supreme, as the symbol of peace, eternal life, and the everlasting union of the poet with his beloved Laura. The "Canzoniere", the poet's masterpiece, and one of the imperishable monuments of the world's literature, was first put into shape by the author and made known by him under the title of "Rerum vulgarium fragmenta". It consists of sonnets (and these are the more numerous) of

2. Poems By Petrarch In English Translation Small collection with an brief biographical note. http://www.tkline.freeserve.co.uk/Webworks/Website/Tendpetrarch.htm

Petrarch Francesco Petrarcha was born in Arezzo of a family exiled from Florence in 1301. His father was a notary. He studied at Montpellier University and at law school, and became chaplain to Cardinal Colonna. He travelled in France, Flanders and Germany. He met his idealized woman, Laura, in 1327. She died of the Black Death in 1348. His series of love sonnets and other poems strongly influenced subsequent European poetry, for example Wyatt and Sidney in England. He settled at Vaucluse near Avignon, but, after the plague of 1362, moved to Padua and then Arqua, in the Euganean Hills, where he died, in July 1374, on or near his birthday, at the age of seventy. Petrarch I Diana was never more pleasing to her lover, when, by a stroke of fate, he saw her naked, shown in the deep pool of icy water, than I was by the mountain shepherdess, standing there to wash her delightful veil, that keeps blonde, lovely hair from the wind’s stress, so that, now heaven’s fires overspill, she made me tremble with an amorous chill. II Now that the wind and earth and sky are silent

3. Francesco Petrarch Francis petrarch Selections from his Correspondences from James Harvey Robinson,ed. and trans. Selection 28 petrarch's Intention to Work until the Last. http://history.hanover.edu/early/petrarch.htm

Francis Petrarch Selections from his Correspondences from James Harvey Robinson, ed. and trans. Francesco Petrarca: The First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters (New York: G.P. Putnam, 1898) Hanover Historical Texts Project Scanned by Jason Boley and Jacob Miller in August, 1995. Proofread by Monica Banas, Stephanie Hammett, and Heather Haralson in April, 1996. Contents Selection 1 - Francesco Petrarch to Posterity Selection 2 - Petrarch's Preface to his First Collection of Letters Selection 3 - Petrarch's Passion for Work - The Trials of a Man of Letters Selection 4 - The Visit to the Goldsmith at Bergamo ... Return to Texts and Documents Please send comments to: luttmer@hanover.edu

4. Francis Petrarch And Art History: Petrarch In Cyberspace Provides links to images of the writer and his works, studies on the writer, bibliographies and exhibitions, biographical information, and historical monuments and museums. http://www3.sympatico.ca/liliane.caron/Petrarca/fpliens_english.html

Francis Petrarch (1304-1374) Petrarch in cyberspace I n this section are links to pages or sites on Francis Petrarch. They are divided into eight categories: images of Petrarch or his works studies on Petrarch bibliographies and exhibitions on Petrarch Petrarch in the news ... historical monuments and musems , and other websites devoted to Petrarch . Refer to the Literary Works section for links to Petrarch's literary works online. Images of Petrarch or his works Des remèdes de l'une et l'autre fortune , France, ca. 1450, folios 14b, 15a (Vellum) (6). Saxon State Library Collection (Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.); information about the manuscript. Le cose volgari di messer Francesco Petrarcha... , Vinegia, 1501. P487 (Title page). Plimpton book and manuscript Collection at Wellesley Library (Wellesley College). Rime , Francesco d'Antonio del Cherico, XVth century. (Collège Montmorency, Québec). Trionfi . Woodcut, Pacini's second edition of the Triumphs, Florence, 1508. (The Visual Telling of Stories). Frontispice of Petrarch's Virgil , Simone Martini, Padua?, 1340? Milan, Biblioteca ambrosiana, ms. S. P. 10/27. (The restauration of Perseus: Technology for Mankind)

5. Petrarch Presents biographical data about this Italian scholar, poet and humanist, bestknown for his love of the lady Laura. With a list of works. made to identify her, but all that is known is that petrarch met Laura in Avignon, where he had entered the household of http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/petrarca.htm

Choose another writer in this calendar: by name: A B C D ... Z by birthday from the calendar Credits and feedback Petrarch (1304-1374) - in full Francesco Petrarca Italian scholar, poet, and humanist, a major force in the development of the Renaissance, famous for his poems addressed to Laura, an idealized beloved whom he met in 1327 and who died in 1348. Attempts have been made to identify her, but all that is known is that Petrarch met Laura in Avignon, where he had entered the household of an influential cardinal. She is generally believed to have been the 19-year-old wife of Hugues de Sade. Petrarch saw her first time in the church of Saint Claire. According to several modern scholars, it is possible that Laura was a fictional character. However, she was a more realistically presented female character than in the conventional songs of the troubadours or in the literature of courtly love. "In my youth I was blessed with an agile, active body, though not particularly strong; and while I cannot boast of being very handsome, I was good-looking enough in my younger days. I had a clear complexion, between light and dark, lively eyes, and for many years sharp vision, which, however, unexpectedly deserted me when I passed my sixtieth birthday, and forced me, reluctantly, to resort to the use of glasses. Although I had always been perfectly healthy, old age assailed me with its usual array of discomforts." (from 'Letter to Posterity') Francis Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) was born in Arezzo as the son of a notary, but he spend his early childhood in a village near Florence. His father, Ser Petracco, was expelled from Florence by the Black Guelfs, who had seized power. Also

6. Medieval Sourcebook: Francesco Petrarch: Letters, C 1372 Browse selected letters written by the poet to Boccaccio and to Cicero. petrarch, or Petrarca, (13041374) a poet, historian, and scholar, petrarch was absorbed with the classics and http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/petrarch1.html

Back to Medieval Source Book Medieval Sourcebook: Francesco Petrarch: Letters, c 1372 Petrarch, or Petrarca, (1304-1374) a poet, historian, and scholar, Petrarch was absorbed with the classics and introduced them to his contemporaries. He is seen as a forerunner of the Renaissance. He was a great letter writer, and wrote some odd letters to dead figures of the past. Here are some samples FRANCESCO PETRARCH: TO POSTERITY Greetings. It is possible that some word of me may have come to you, though even this is doubtful, since an insignificant and obscure name will scarcely penetrate far in either time or space. If, however, you should have heard of me, you may desire to know what manner of man I was, or what was the outcome of my labours, especially those of which some description or, at any rate, the bare titles may have reached you. I possessed a well-balanced rather than a keen intellect, one prone to all kinds of good wholesome study, but especially inclined to al philosophy and the art of poetry. The latter indeed, I neglected as time went on, and took delight in sacred literature. Finding in that it hidden sweetness which I had once esteemed but lightly, I came to regard the works of the poets as only amenities. Among the many subjects which interested me, I dwelt especially ,Upon antiquity, for our own age has always I repelled me, so that, had it not been for the love of those dear to me, I should have preferred to .,have been born in any other period than our own. In order to forget my own times, I have continually striven to place myself in spirit in other ,ages, and consequently I delighted in history; ,not that the conflicting statements did not :offend me, but when in doubt I accepted what Reappeared to me most probable, or yielded to the "authority of the writer.

7. Reptile's Petrarch Page petrarch on the web. Sorry, your browser doesn't support Java(tm). Portraitof an Unknown Woman Holding a Volume of petrarch Who is petrarch? http://www.degrandis.com/d3/ptrch.htm

8. The Petrarchan Grotto http://petrarch.freeservers.com/

9. DANTE AND OTHERS: Petrarch, The Canzoniere. An English translation of the Canzoniere by A.S. Kline, with occasional footnotes, for browsing and download as MS Word, HTML, or PDF. http://www.tonykline.free-online.co.uk/Petrarchhome.htm

Poems From The Canzoniere A selection of fifty-three poems forming an introduction to the Canzoniere. Browse now or Download The Canzoniere Complete The three hundred and sixty-six poems of the Canzoniere with occasional footnotes. Browse below: Download Section I Poems 1 to 61 Section II Poems 62 to 122 Section III Poems 123 to 183 Section IV Poems 184 to 244 Section V Poems 245 to 305 Section VI Poems 306 to 366 Note: The sectional divisions do not occur in Petrarch's text. This work MAY be FREELY reproduced, stored and transmitted, electronically or otherwise, for any NON-COMMERCIAL purpose. Need to know about eBooks and Download formats? Go to eBooks Back to DANTE AND OTHERS HOME PAGE for more translations. Last Modified 16/Jun/2002

10. Petrarch Poems From The Canzoniere Fiftythree poems from the Canzoniere in a new English translation by A. S. Kline. http://www.tonykline.free-online.co.uk/Petrarch.htm

Petrarch Fifty-three Poems from ‘The Canzoniere’ HOME DOWNLOAD A.S.Kline Contents You who hear the sound, in scattered rhymes, To make a graceful act of revenge, It was on that day when the sun’s ray What infinite providence and art ... Index of First Lines in Italian 1. ‘Voi ch’ascoltate in rime sparse il suono’ You who hear the sound, in scattered rhymes of those sighs on which I fed my heart, in my first vagrant youthfulness, when I was partly other than I am, I hope to find pity, and forgiveness, for all the modes in which I talk and weep, between vain hope and vain sadness, in those who understand love through its trials. Yet I see clearly now I have become an old tale amongst all these people, so that it often makes me ashamed of myself; and shame is the fruit of my vanities, and remorse, and the clearest knowledge of how the world’s delight is a brief dream. 2. ‘Per fare una leggiadra sua vendetta’ To make a graceful act of revenge, and punish a thousand wrongs in a single day, Love secretly took up his bow again, like a man who waits the time and place to strike.

11. Petrarch: Familiar Letters 1-1 Find petrarch's preface to his letters, along with end notes. petrarch'S PREFACE TO HIS Familiar Letters http://www.towson.edu/~tinkler/reader/petrarch.html

PETRARCH'S PREFACE TO HIS Familiar Letters Being a new translation with notes by John F. Tinkler (c) of Book 1, Letter 1 of Rerum familiarium libri by Francesco Petrarca ca. 1350 * Asterisks indicate endnotes accessible as hypertext. To His Socrates What will we do now, brother? Indeed, we have already tried almost everything, and there is no rest anywhere. When can we expect it? Where shall we look for it? Time, as they say, has run through our fingers; our earlier hopes are buried with our friends. It was the year that rendered us lonely and helpless; nor did it take from us the kinds of things that can be restored from the Indian, or Caspian, or Carpathian seas; these latest blows are irreparable, for any wound that death has inflicted is untreatable. Only one comfort remains: we shall follow those whom we have sent before us. How short the wait will be, I do not know; this I know, that it cannot be long. And indeed however short it is, it cannot fail to weigh heavily. But we must restrain ourselves from complaints, at least in the beginning. As for you, brother, what your concerns are and what you are thinking about, I do not know; but I am putting together little bundles and, as wanderers do, I am looking around at what I should bring with me, what I should share among my friends, and what I should commit to the fire. For nothing of mine is for sale. I am, indeed, more richly provided [ ditior ], or rather more fettered

12. Francesco Petrarch, Familiar Letters Francis petrarch Familiar Letters From James Harvey Robinson, ed. andtrans. petrarch The First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters http://history.hanover.edu/texts/petrarch/pettable.htm

Francis Petrarch Familiar Letters From James Harvey Robinson, ed. and trans. Petrarch: The First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters (New York: G.P. Putnam, 1898) Hanover Historical Texts Project Scanned by Jason Boley and Jacob Miller in August, 1995. Proofread by Monica Banas, Stephanie Hammett, and Heather Haralson in April, 1996. Proofread and pages inserted by Faisal Shahid, December 2000. To Posterity To Socrates: Preface to his First Collection of Letters To the Abbot of St. Benigno: Petrarch's Passion for Work - The Trials of a Man of Letters The Visit to the Goldsmith at Bergamo ... The Charms of Pavia (in progress) To Cola di Rienzo (in progress) Rienzo under the Protection of the Muses (in progress) To the Roman People, urging them to Intervene in Rienzo's Trial (in progress) To Charles IV, Emperor August of the Romans (in progress) Familiar Letters - His Audience with the Emperor (in progress) Religion does not Require us to Give up Literature (in progress) On a Religious Life (in progress) On the Impossibility of Acquiring Fame during one's Lifetime (in progress) Petrarch's Intention to Work until the Last (in progress) Return to Hanover Historical Texts Project Return to Hanover College Department of History Please send comments to: luttmer@hanover.edu

13. La Mission Suisse De Genève Alumni page for former missionaries who served in the Geneva Switzerland Misison. Includes a mailing list and information on reunions. http://alt.xmission.com/~petrarch/geneve2.htm

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14. Manoello, Giudeo Raccolta di poesie dell'autore pubblicata online. http://petrarch.freeservers.com/imrom.html

Italian Poems of Immanuel ben Solomon (also known as Immanuel Romano, Manoello Giudeo), ca. 1265-ca. 1330 See: Mario Marti (ed.). Poeti giocosi del tempo di Dante , pp. 313-321. Rizzoli, Milano, 1956. Biography Sonnets 1 (MS Casanat. 433) Amor non lesse mai l' avemaria; Amor non tenne mai legge n© fede; Amor ¨ un cor, che non ode n© vede e non sa mai che misura si sia. Amor ¨ una pura signoria, che sol si ferma in voler ci² che chiede; Amor fa com' pianeto, che provvede, e sempre retra s© per ogni via. Amor non lass² mai, per paternostri n© per incanti, suo gentil orgoglio; n© per t©ma digiunt' ¨, per ch' i' giostri. Amor fa quello, di che pi¹ mi doglio: ch© non s'att¨ne a cosa ch' io li mostri, ma sempre mi sa dir: - Pur cos¬ voglio. - 2 (MS Barb. Lat. 3953) In steso non mi conosco, ogn'om oda, che l'esser proprio si ¨ ghibellino: in Roma so' Colonnes' ed Ursino, e piacemi se l'uno e l'altro ha loda. Ed in Toscana parte guelfa goda; in Romagna so' ci² ch' ¨ Zappetino; mal giudeo sono io, non saracino:

15. Petrarch Selected Poems of petrarch. Sonnets and Canzone. Sonnet I. Voi ch'ascoltatein rime sparse il suono Di quei sospiri ond'io nudriva http://www.degrandis.com/d3/petsonn.htm

16. Medieval Sourcebook: Petrarch: Letter Criticizing The Avignon Papacy Medieval Sourcebook petrarch Letter Criticizing the Avignon Papacy.petrarch, Letter to a friend, 13401353 Now I am living http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/14cpetrarch-pope.html

Back to Medieval Source Book ORB Main Page Links to Other Medieval Sites Medieval Sourcebook: Petrarch: Letter Criticizing the Avignon Papacy Petrarch, Letter to a friend, 1340-1353 ...Now I am living in France, in the Babylon of the West. The sun in its travels sees nothing more hideous than this place on the shores of the wild Rhone, which suggests the hellish streams of Cocytus and Acheron. Here reign the successors of the poor fishermen of Galilee; they have strangely forgotten their origin. I am astounded, as I recall their predecessors, to see these men loaded with gold and clad in purple, boasting of the spoils of princes and nations; to see luxurious palaces and heights crowned with fortifications, instead of a boat turned downward for shelter. We no longer find the simple nets which were once used to gain a frugal sustenance from the lake of Galilee, and with which, having labored all night an caught nothing, they took, at daybreak, a multitude of fishes, in the name of Jesus. One is stupefied nowadays to hear the lying tongues, and to see worthless parchments turned by a leaden seal into nets which are used, in Christ's name, but by the arts of Belial, to catch hordes of unwary Christians. These fish, too, are dressed and laid on the burning coals of anxiety before they fill the insatiable maw of their captors. Instead of holy solitude we find a criminal host and crowds of the most infamous satellites; instead of soberness, licentious banquets; instead of pious pilgrimages, preternatural and foul sloth; instead of the bare feet of the apostles, the snowy coursers of brigands fly past us, the horses decked in gold and fed on gold, soon to be shod with gold, if the Lord does not check this slavish luxury. In short, we seem to be among the kings of the Persians or Parthians, before whom we must fall down and worship, and who cannot be approached except presents be offered. O ye unkempt and emaciated old men, is it for this you labored? Is it for this that you have sown the field of the Lord and watered it with your holy blood? But let us leave the subject.

17. Petrarch When his father died, petrarch was almost destitute. 16. To Antonio of Ferrara, wholamented petrarch's supposed death. Those pious lines wherein are finely met. http://www.humanistictexts.org/petrarch.htm

Click Home For Topic Search, Up For Period Summary Contents Introduction The power of poetry Admiration of mountains Literature and life ... Sources Introduction Francesco Petrarca was born in Italy in 1304. He spent some time in Barcelona following his father’s wish that he study law. When his father died, Petrarch was almost destitute. He became a priest and subsequently gained the friendship of Giacomo Colonna, a Roman nobleman and ecclesiastic. Petrach lived for some years under his patronage. With his first large scale work, Africa —an epic in Latin—Petrarch emerged as a European celebrity. At the same time his skill in writing sonnets in Italian became increasingly evident. In 1327 the sight of a woman called Laura initiated in him a continual outpouring of passion in Italian poems. She was a married women who bore her husband 10 children, and it is quite possible that she and Petrarch never met. He seems to have channeled much of his energy into love poems that were never intended to persuade the subject of his love, while at the same inserting into his prose paragraphs that showed his contempt for men who pursue women He traveled widely, served as an ambassador, and was a prolific letter writer. He collected manuscripts on his travels and was a prime mover in the recovery of knowledge from writers of Rome and Greece. He remarked, “

18. Francis Petrarch And Art History http://www3.sympatico.ca/liliane.caron/Petrarca/fpframes_english.html

19. Francis Petrarch (general Note) Gold THE GEOFFREY CHAUCER PAGE Francis petrarch (Francesco Petrarca, 13041374). Fora text of this sonnet see petrarch's If Love Does Not Exist . http://icg.harvard.edu/~chaucer/special/authors/petrarch/

THE GEOFFREY CHAUCER PAGE Francis Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca, 1304-1374) Fraunceys Petrak, the lauriat poete, Highte this clerk, whos rethorike sweete Enlumyned al Ytaille of poetrie, (ClPro IV.31-33) Francis Petrarch had an enormous influence on English literature, beginning in the sixteenth century the fact that we customarily Anglicize his name, Francesco Petrarca, into "Francis Petrarch" shows how deeply embedded his works are in the English poetic tradition. His poems shaped much of Elizabethan lyric poetry, and Shakespeare's sonnets could not exist without Petrarch's previous sonnets and canzone. Chaucer was the first English writer to know these poems. and centuries before Petrarch's work entered the mainstream of English literature he draws on Petrarch for Troilus' song in Troilus and Criseyda For a text of this sonnet see: Petrarch's "If Love Does Not Exist" Petrarch was as celebrated in his time for his Latin works as for his Italian; (when Chaucer calls him the "laureat poete" he refers to the Latin works. Most, like his ambitious but finally unsuccessful epic Africa (celebrating Scipio Africanus), are now almost forgotten, but his often charming Latin letters (such as the letter to posterity) are still worth reading. See

20. Petrarch's Tale Of Griselda (analogue Of Clerk's Tale) Gold THE GEOFFREY CHAUCER PAGE. Francis petrarch (13041374) Tale of Griselda. Forpetrarch's comment on the tale see Introduction to the Story of Griselda. http://icg.harvard.edu/~chaucer/special/authors/petrarch/pet-gris.html

THE GEOFFREY CHAUCER PAGE Francis Petrarch (1304-1374) Tale of Griselda A TALE OF WIFELY OBEDIENCE AND FAITH "Give ear, therefore, we pray you, to the entreaties of those who have never refused to do your bidding. You may leave the selection of a wife to our care, for we shall procure you such an one as shall be truly worthy of you, and sprung of so high a lineage that you may have the best hope of her. Free all your subjects, we beseech you, of the grievous apprehension that if anything incident to our mortal lot should happen to you, you would go leaving no successor to yourself, and they would remain deprived of a leader such as their hearts crave." Their loyal entreaties touched the man's heart, and he made answer: "My friends, you constrain me to that which never entered my thoughts. I have had pleasure in complete liberty, a thing which is rare in marriage. Nevertheless I, willingly submit to the wishes of my subjects, trusting in your prudence and your devotion. But I release you from the task, which you have offered to assume, of finding me a wife. "That task I lay on my own shoulders. For what benefit can the distinction of one confer upon another? Right often, children are all unlike their parents. Whatever is good in a man comes not from another, but from God. As I trust to Him all my welfare, so would I entrust to Him the outcome of my marriage, hoping for His accustomed mercy. He will find for me that which shall be expedient for my peace and safety.

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