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    Francesco Petrarch

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    	Francesco Petrarch‚ was a man held in high regards of his peers. The life in which Petrarch lived‚ was certainly not one of which many people could have had dealt with. A life of solitude‚ misplaced love and‚ family misfortune that was endured. But‚ through hard workand perseverance‚ loyalty to the churches which lead to good connections‚ he was regarded as one of the most influential persons and authors of his time. 	Petrarch was not a man with greatest of family lives. Born in Arezzo

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    "Who was Francesco Petrarch?" Francesco Petrarch was born shortly after 1300 in a time and place where very few could read or write and those that did considered it a chore where as Petrarch saw a blessing. He had a passion for writing his thoughts down on paper. Francesco Petrarch was instrumental in the revival of Classical culture which became known as the Renaissance. He spent much of his life in the French city of Avignon‚ the home of the papal court‚ where‚ in 1326‚ he first saw the “Laura”

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    Petrarch Sonnet 104

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    Bibliography: A+E Television Networks‚ LLC.  “Franz Liszt.” A+E Networks‚ 2012. http://www.biography.com/people/franz-liszt-9383467. Fuller‚ John. The Sonnet: Italian Sonnet‚ 1. London: Methuen & Co‚ 1972. Grout‚ Donald Jay. A History of Western Music: The Nineteenth Century: Romanticism; Vocal music‚ 660. New York: Norton‚ 1988. Hamilton‚ Kenneth. The Cambridge Companion to Liszt‚ 135 – 137. Edited by Kenneth

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    Literature I March 12‚ 2015 Whoso list to hunt: Stalking vs. Admiring “Whoso list to hunt” is a Petrarch sonnet with fourteen lines written in iambic pentameter. It follows an abbaabba cddc ee rhyme scheme (Wyatt 649) instead of traditional Petrarch rhyme scheme of abbaabba cde cde (Petrarch 337). Wyatt’s poem is loosely based off of Petrarch’s original sonnet “Una candida cerva”. Both sonnets are about unattainable women and use the allusion of a doe to describe their encounter. In both poems

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    Power of Love in Sonnets by Petrarch‚ Surrey and Wyatt Francesco Petrarch‚ Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard‚ the Earl of Surrey were three of the greatest poets in history. They were truly visionaries in their work and with their origination of the sonnet‚ they crafted poems of love in all its incredible forms. With these poets‚ we are able to see how the sonnet evolved into the form popularized by Shakespeare and even how it still influences the modern poetry of today. Petrarch‚ known as the

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    Catulla and Petrarch

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    Catulla and Petrarch Greg Hendrix The lyric poems of the Roman poet‚ Catullus‚ and the late Middle Ages poet‚ Petrarch‚ both trace the cycle of a love affair‚ but the nature of those affairs is quite different. Catullus depicts a passionate‚ lusty relationship‚ whereas Petrarch describes something more akin to worship from afar. The differences likely reflect not only their different experiences‚ but also the different times in which they lived. Catullus lived in pre-Christian Rome‚ and his

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    Petrarch and Machiavelli

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    Thoughts on Ruling: Machiavelli VS. Petrarch In the fourteenth century‚ the humanist philosopher Francesco Petrarch wrote a letter entitled How a Ruler Ought to Govern His Sate. Nearly a century later‚ another philosopher by the name of Niccolo Machiavelli wrote a book about governing‚ The Prince. The two documents show many similarities in content and theme. While the two wrote in similar subject matter‚ it is clear that these philosophers possess distinctly different viewpoints on how a ruler

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    Falling in love at first sight‚ Francesco Petrarch‚ an Italian poet finds himself haunted by the breathtaking beauty of Laura. Laura‚ already happily married‚ refuses to reciprocate Petrarch’s undying love. Petrarch‚ filled with feelings of despair and rejection‚ uses Laura as his inspiration to write his emotions and thoughts in the form of Petrarchan sonnets. In “I’d Sing of Love in Such a Novel Fashion” and “Alone‚ and Lost in Thought‚ the Desert Glade” Petrarch uses symbolism to show that the

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    (1) Francesco Petrarch (1304-74) As the first of the Humanist‚ he was one of the most influential poets of the Middle Ages. And he is considered by most to be the founder Renaissance Humanism in general. Petrarch was the first and greatest representative of the humanistic phase of the Italian Renaissance. He was the first scholar of the mediaeval time who fully realized and appreciated the supreme excellence and beauty of the classical literature and its value as a means of culture.

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    Francescos Decision

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    and his family. The boy’s name was Francesco. He was born in Sicily‚ the place where his father‚ Giorgio‚ and his mother‚ Maria‚ had grown up. His family owned a pizza shop in town called “Giorgio’s Pizzeria.” Although their pizza shop was everyone’s favorite place to get pizza‚ they were still very poor. Ever since Francesco was born‚ and until he was ten‚ he had always wanted to be a baker and own a pizza shop just like his father. But when Francesco was ten‚ a family moved in next to his

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