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📖🏔 #OnThisDay in the #History of #Literature 26 April 1336, the Italian Renaissance poet #Petrarch 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. #Poetry
The First Meeting of Petrarch and Laura in the Church of Santa Chiara at Avignon.
1889
🎨Marie Spartali Stillman
Simon Petrarch, the Batman. Detective Comics 622, created by John Ostrander & Flint Henry
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 @MAG_Rochester
Learn about the legend of Gologmagog, Grand Petrarch of the Gods of Hell...
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#herosgrave #webcomic #legend #gologmagog
‘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.
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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@xoselbrea
🖼️'First Meeting of Petrarch & Laura..' 1889 : #MarieSpartaliStillman
The Triumph of Death fresco by an unknown artist, in the Regional Gallery of Palazzo Abatellis in Palermo, Sicily, ca. 1446.⠀
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Featured in our latest essay "Petrarch's Plague: Love, Death, and Friendship in a Time of Pandemic" by Paula Findlen — https://t.co/w5TN5lHUcl
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 @dianadep1 😉✨
Landmark digitisation of works related to poet and humanist #Petrarch now available online https://t.co/yUMfSCcLKx #SpecialCollections
Landmark digitisation of works related to poet and humanist #Petrarch now available online https://t.co/sAsXipHQkJ #SpecialCollections
#inktober 28! My own concoction, the weapons of the poet - or, the muse.
#illustration #artistsofinstagram #erynillustrates #muse #greekmythology #petrarch #poetry #growth #creativity #characterdesign #pnw #seattle
‘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