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 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Recent studies of the Rerum vulgarium fragmenta have acknowledged the great importance of narrativity. Together with that development has come ...

On Francesco Petrarch’s love, hate, and precision of feeling. The outer restlessness of his migratory life found its analogue in an inner turbulence which allowed him little of the peace he sought. It ...

“The Afterword” is born from scribbles buried between cracked book spines, from the creased corner of a well-thumbed novel. Through this coming-of-age column, I hope to use the literary bildungsroman ...

Of all the world’s great writers, Petrarch is the best known for losing his head. On Good Friday in 1327, the then 23-year-old writer and scholar fell madly — and forlornly — in love with a woman he ...

The charm of leisure must not be an indolent vacancy of mind, but the investigation or discovery of truth, that thus every man may make solid attainments without grudging that others do the same. And, ...