Francesco Petrarca - an Italian poet famous for love lyrics (1304-1374)How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content.
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With Leonello d'Este and Guarino Veronese in his audience, Jacopo Sanguinacci of Padua argued for love as a source of inspiration, holding up Francesco Petrarca, honor of Florence, as a model of manners, eloquence, and vernacular style: "Vedi la fonte d'ogni bel costume, / d'ogni eloquenzia e d'ogni bel vulgare, / poeta singulare, / misser Francesco, che Fiorenza onora. In dividing his two canonical letter-books into Epistulae Familiares and Seniles, Barbaro was, of course, imitating the division and method adopted nearly a century earlier by Francesco Petrarca, who was, in turn, following Cicero's grouping of his Epistulae ad Familiares in a single collection. Ente Nazionale Francesco Petrarca, Studi sul Petrarca, 21. |
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