Italian Literature A study of Italian literature has strongly influenced not only the Europeans but also the world. It shows passionate sensitivity to goodness and true beauty of life. The Italian love for Christian virtue‚ faith‚ hope‚ and charity radiates in both their prose and poetry. For Italians‚ true love and nobility‚ which are manifested in their literary works‚ are inseparable. FAMOUS POETS PROFILE WORKS SHORT DESCRIPTION of WORKS Horace Virgil Livy Ovid
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normally referred to a mistress‚ friend‚ or a familial relation. One of the first important artistic creations witnessed by the Elizabethans was Sidney’s sonnet sequence called Astrophil and Stella‚ a variation on Petrarch’s Canzoniere. Sidney who was indeed acclaimed the ’English Petrarch’‚ nevertheless wrote with his Elizabethan readers in mind as his characters spoke in English accents‚ voiced English concerns and evoked the spirit of the time. The sequence‚ which like all Renaissance sequences is not
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Dante and the Road to Humanism During the Renaissance‚ the belief of humanism became extremely popular. After the black plague people began to wonder if God had abandoned them. As a result‚ they began to look for their own answers through observation and experiment; this method was called empiricism. Through this man began to place himself at the center of the universe instead of God. Men began to embrace their own talents and spent less time worrying about the next life and more living in the
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Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374) was an Italian scholar‚ poet‚ and early humanist during the reformation of the Renaissance period. He was one of the greatest poets of the 14th-16th century‚ and is regarded as the father of the humanist movement. Petrarch was a prolific writer. Not only was he known for poetry in Italian and Latin‚ but also hundreds of letters‚ essays and histories. Like Dante‚ a generation before Petrarch wrote in a vernacular style to bring Italian a literary language. In
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Petrarch ’s journey to the peak of Mount Ventoux was one that sparked a multitude of questions of his inner self. It was due to Petrarch ’s laziness‚ that he found himself making the mistake of taking the unworthy‚ longer‚ easier path‚ again and again. This path would eventually deter him from his final destination‚ and he would later have to take the steeper‚ more direct path in addition to the first path. Through this trial and error‚ Petrarch was able to contemplate and extend his thought processes
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Petrarch’s Influence on Shakespeare An excerpt from Petrarch and his influence on English literature by Pietro Borghesi. Bologna: N. Zanichelli. Shakespeare‚ even the great Shakespeare‚ could not escape the influence of the Petrarchists and therefore of Petrarch himself‚ but‚ as we do not want to be misunderstood‚ we say at once just what we said about Spenser: Shakespeare is not a Petrarchist and perhaps his poetical vein is more akin to Dante’s than to Petrarch’s. In order to show that he is
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In the “First Dialogue”‚ the topic surrounding the root of the unhappiness really stood out to me. I feel like to have a precise definition for what happiness and unhappiness is not quite right in Petrarch and St. Augustine’s discussion. The flaw in having a set definition is what makes me happy is different from what makes the person next to me happy and the reason I am unhappy is different from the reason why he/she is unhappy. St. Augustine blames our own selves for our happiness. I think
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aspects of life. It was in a stagnant state where intellectuals seemed to be few and far apart. The term “Dark Ages” was actually coined by Francesco Petrarch‚ a man that is considered to be the father of humanism. When he first used the term the Dark Ages‚ he was referring to a period of time between the early Renaissance and the Ancient Roman world. Petrarch stated that‚ “once the darkness has been broken‚ our descendants will perhaps be able to return to the pure‚ pristine radiance.” The descendants
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concise critical account of the major British sonnet writers in relation to the sonnet’s history. This volume is tailor-made for students’ needs and will be an essential purchase for anyone studying this enduring poetic form. Poets covered include: Petrarch Wyatt Sidney Shakespeare Spenser Dante Milton Michael R.G.Spiller is Senior Lecturer in English and Cultural History at the University of Aberdeen. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SONNET An Introduction Michael R.G.Spiller London and New York First
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humanist changed the arts and education was interesting because the three changed the arts with their different ways of writing. Francesco Petrarch wrote a lot about himself in his writings. This was very unusual since the way people’s minds were set was that to reach heaven you need to help others and not show too much attention of yourself. Yet‚ Francesco Petrarch was all about himself saying he was never of richness or very popular‚ then turn it around saying he knew kings and was never poor. He wrote
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