Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Canzoniere: 'Peace I do not find, and I have no wish to make war' - INTERFOTO / Alamy Stock Photo Today marks the 650th ...

Welcome to Daily TWiP, your daily dose of all the holidays and history we couldn’t cram into The Week in Preview. Today (April 6th) in 1327, the Italian poet Petrarch began one of the most passionate ...

The 14th century Italian poet Francesco Petrarch left hundreds of letters detailing his life and thoughts. Now scientists plan to dig up his remains to find out more about his flesh and bones.

A scientific team that had been hoping to reconstruct the features of the great Italian poet Petrarch by digging up his bones has confirmed that the skull found in his tomb is not his. Instead, the ...

Petrarch in Global Translation: A Genealogy of Western Love (PGT) is a collaborative humanities project across languages and national borders that is investigating the foundational conception of ...

For the last three years, colleagues from The University of Manchester, University of Leeds and University of Oxford have been working together on a project researching the commentary tradition of the ...

ROME: The 14th century Italian poet Francesco Petrarch left hundreds of letters detailing his life and thoughts. Now scientists plan to dig up his remains to find out more about his flesh and bones.

Jamie James is a critic and the author of "The Music of the Spheres." When the Modernist magi T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound laid down the canons of literary taste that still hold sway today, largely ...

Fourteen Iranian and Italian scholars are scheduled to deliver speeches during the two-day seminar, which will open on November 8, Iran’s Book City Institute, a co-organizer of the meeting, announced ...