This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Recent studies of the Rerum vulgarium fragmenta have acknowledged the great importance of narrativity. Together with that development has come ...

The 14th century Italian poet Francesco Petrarch left hundreds of letters detailing his life and thoughts. Now scientists plan to dig up his remains to find out more about his flesh and bones.

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 ...

A scientific team that had been hoping to reconstruct the features of the great Italian poet Petrarch by digging up his bones has confirmed that the skull found in his tomb is not his. Instead, the ...

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 ...

“The Afterword” is born from scribbles buried between cracked book spines, from the creased corner of a well-thumbed novel. Through this coming-of-age column, I hope to use the literary bildungsroman ...

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 ...

Fourteen Iranian and Italian scholars are scheduled to deliver speeches during the two-day seminar, which will open on November 8, Iran’s Book City Institute, a co-organizer of the meeting, announced ...

The charm of leisure must not be an indolent vacancy of mind, but the investigation or discovery of truth, that thus every man may make solid attainments without grudging that others do the same. And, ...