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 ...

Writers and poets shaped its style and vocabulary over centuries, with beauty and sound as some of their primary considerations. It happened again the other day. I was walking down the street in my ...

Francesco Petrarca , known in English as Petrarch, is one of the tre corone – the ‘three crowns’ – of early Italian literature. There was a brief period when all three were alive: Dante died in 1321, ...

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 ...

Current issues are now on the Chicago Journals website. Read the latest issue.Modern Philology sets the standard for literary scholarship, history, and criticism. The journal features contributions on ...

The town that drinks like Ancient Rome and Greece (Credit: Prisma by Dukas Presseagentur GmbH/Alamy) Arquà Petrarca is known as the final resting place of a Renaissance patriarch – and the source of a ...