📖🏔 in the of 26 April 1336, the Italian Renaissance poet famously climbed Mount Ventoux in Provence. At the peak he gazed out over the land, contemplated his life, his love for Laura, and read passages from Saint Augustine.

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The First Meeting of Petrarch and Laura in the Church of Santa Chiara at Avignon.
1889

🎨Marie Spartali Stillman

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Simon Petrarch, the Batman. Detective Comics 622, created by John Ostrander & Flint Henry

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Fame in a dress of eyes in a 16 c. Dutch glass panel. It’s a scene from Petrarch’s Trionfi (Time over Fame) but the dress is a wild invention. I love how the eyes seem to have lids, an uncanny melding of the way skin and fabric both fold. From my last visit to

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Learn about the legend of Gologmagog, Grand Petrarch of the Gods of Hell...

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‘Books have led some to learning and others to madness, when they swallow more than they can digest.’ - Petrarch 14 C.

Jacques Le Boucq, Petrarch from ‘Recueil d’Arras’, 16 C.

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I first saw you
As you came up the hill. We met. But all
We did that day was mingle great & small
Footprints in summer dust

'Meeting & Passing':#RobertFrost (1874-1963)

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🖼️'First Meeting of Petrarch & Laura..' 1889 :

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The Triumph of Death fresco by an unknown artist, in the Regional Gallery of Palazzo Abatellis in Palermo, Sicily, ca. 1446.⠀

Featured in our latest essay "Petrarch's Plague: Love, Death, and Friendship in a Time of Pandemic" by Paula Findlen — https://t.co/w5TN5lHUcl

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Philippe-Jacques van Bree, Belgian painter, 1786 - 1871, Laura and Petrarch at Fontaine de Vaucluse

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🎼Philippe Verdelot(c.1480?-c.1531 o 1551?)
🎵Italia mia
✍️Petrarch (Canzoniere, CXXVII)
🎨Leonardo da Vinci (self-portrait, c. 1478/79 - The National Gallery of Art, in Washington)

🤗💝buongiorno e grazie sempre💐a te carissima Diana 😉✨

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Landmark digitisation of works related to poet and humanist now available online https://t.co/yUMfSCcLKx

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Landmark digitisation of works related to poet and humanist now available online https://t.co/sAsXipHQkJ

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the laura to my petrarch..........😔💓💗💖💞💗💘💓💗💖💘

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‘I have seen all my
hopes, not diamond,
alas, but glass, fall
from my hand, and
all my thoughts
shattered in two’.
Petrarch CXXIV:Art-Vidan

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The Triumph of Petrarch, ca. 1500–1550

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