Comments on: Francesco Petrarch & Laura deNoves

Francesco Petrarch & Laura deNoves

hama7 — Sat, 24 Jul 2004 15:44:16 -0800

By: hama7

hama7 — Sat, 24 Jul 2004 15:44:54 -0800

[mentioned obliquely here]

By: Ayn Marx

Ayn Marx — Sat, 24 Jul 2004 16:21:58 -0800

The site is titled, "Francesco Petrarch - Father of Humanism," but I can't find anything on the site to explain what this means.

By: Grod

Grod — Sat, 24 Jul 2004 16:33:13 -0800

read this, Ayn Marx. The site suggests that his influence helped bring about Humanism by reviving the practice of writing.

By: kliuless

kliuless — Sat, 24 Jul 2004 16:56:07 -0800

his secretum is great! [mentioned ablatively here :] read it in college for my 14th century lit class... might also want to check out christine de pizan :D i remember writing a paper comparing how their views on the afterlife informed their views on 'how to be' in the world; i'll have to dig it up! cheers, thanks :D re: humanism :D j/k! see here and here!

By: pyramid termite

pyramid termite — Sat, 24 Jul 2004 17:16:38 -0800

i've been meaning to look for his poems on the net ... thanks for posting this

By: stbalbach

stbalbach — Sat, 24 Jul 2004 23:21:53 -0800

Petrarch is probably best known historically for creating the concept of "The Dark Ages". Some even attribute the coinage of it to him but that is debatable, and irrelevant. Petrarch was at the cusp of the start of the Modern Age and the end of the Middle Ages. The 14th Century (Petrarch was born in 1300) is a tremendous period of change and transition, from the Middle Ages to the Modern Age, this transitional period is known as the Renaissance, Petrarch helped set the Renaissance into motion with the revival and study of the ancient Greek and Roman texts. This is a fantastic site.