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.

Today marks the 650th anniversary of the death of the medieval Italian poet, scholar and humanist Francesco Petrarca, known in English as Petrarch. Acknowledged as one of the most significant figures ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jamie James is a critic and the author of "The Music of the Spheres." When the Modernist magi T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound laid down the canons of literary taste that still hold sway today, largely ...