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Still, moments of brilliance shone through, Lim’s refined lyricism and technical poise affirming his singular artistry. The Adagio sostenuto stood out, the pianist’s featherlight touch and crystalline ...
Griselda is a character borrowed by Chaucer from Petrarch and Boccaccio. She is patient and obedient to her husband even though he steals their children away and tells her they are dead to test ...
After sustained applause, and curtain calls, Lim was induced to play an encore: he played one of Liszt’s Petrarch sonnets, “Pace non trovo.” I thought once again of the universality of music. Lim, ...
Scattered through the pages are bits of acceptable but uninspired Italian poetry — Leonardo was no Petrarch — and snippets of mild Neoplatonist philosophy — Leonardo was no Ficino.
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Historian Alexander Bevilacqua joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about the cultural rebirth which came to be known as The Renaissance. When did The Renaissance begin? What was it ...