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19 hours ago · Translations of Sonnets from Petrarch’s Rerum vulgarium fragmenta 2/April 7: Ephesians 2:8 To engineer revenge replete with grace and punish in one day fully a thousand slights, Love retrieved his bow, keeping from sight, the way a villain awaits time and place. Virtue had made of my cramped heart a base from which to guard […]
19 hours ago · - early modern notions of the Res publica literaria, from Petrarch to Pufendorf and Christian Thomasius - Philosophical schools, e.g., The Young Hegelians, The Frankfurt School - The Salon from the eighteenth century to Habermas’ public sphere . Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words to republicofscholars@gmail.com by November 15, 2024.
3 days ago · Indeed, the notion of a long period of cultural darkness had been expressed by Petrarch even earlier. Events at the end of the Middle Ages, particularly beginning in the 12th century, set in motion a series of social, political, and intellectual transformations that culminated in the Renaissance.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
3 days ago · Posterity: inventing tradition from Petrarch to Gramsci by Rocco Rubini, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 2022, 360 pp., $49.00 (Hard copy), ISBN: 9780226807553 Fernanda Gallo Homerton College, University of Cambridge Correspondence fg371@cam.ac.uk
1 day ago · As a cultural movement, the Renaissance encompassed innovative flowering of literary Latin and an explosion of vernacular literatures, beginning with the 14th-century resurgence of learning based on classical sources, which contemporaries credited to Petrarch; the development of linear perspective and other techniques of rendering a more ...
2 days ago · Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (/ ˌdɛzɪˈdɪəriəs ɪˈræzməs / DEZ-i-DEER-ee-əs irr-AZ-məs, Dutch: [ˌdeːziˈdeːrijʏs eːˈrɑsmʏs]; 28 October c. 1466 – 12 July 1536), commonly known in English as Erasmus of Rotterdam or Erasmus, was a Dutch Christian humanist, Catholic priest and theologian, educationalist, satirist, and philosopher.
3 days ago · Poems. Sonnet Viii. A pië" de' colli ove la bella vesta. HE FEIGNS AN ADDRESS FROM SOME BIRDS WHICH HE HAD PRESENTED. Beneath the verdant hills--where the fair vest. Of earthly mould first took the Lady dear, Who him that sends us, feather 'd captives, here. Awakens often from his tearful rest-- Lived we in freedom and in quiet, blest.
