Apostoli in Florence ; Francesco ... Petrarch’s later sonnets, usually numbered 313 and 314, in which be gives lyrical expression to his own last word upon the intimate theme of the Secret.

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.

For, in seeking to express his feelings for the woman he called Laura, Francesco Petrarch gave definitive form to the sonnet and established himself as the first modern, western poet. Now ...

It’s a textbook platitude that Petrarch is the first “modern man,” but I’m not so sure that this assertion holds up. His apparent frankness, his jittery ...

Tests have shown that the head of one of Italy's most-highly revered writers - the renaissance poet Francesco Petrarch - isn't his. Petrarch's tomb was opened last year The finding has put a damper on ...

Virgil replies: The remainder of the metrica delivers Petrarch's news of the present. Even in this short sequence, however, we can see that Francesco was no mean Dantist, expertly able to re-mix the ...

ROME: 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.

University of Leeds and University of Oxford have been working together on a project researching the commentary tradition of the poetic works of the Italian Renaissance figure Francesco Petrarca (1304 ...

The letter is addressed to “ Francesco Petrarca ... high-spirited passage undoubtedly affords one more clue to the secret of Petrarch’s remarkable, yet upon the whole honorable acceptability ...