“ You will perhaps have heard something of me ; though who can tell whether so trivial and obscure a name as mine will have penetrated to remote places and distant times ? But if so, you may desire to ...

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 ...

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, ...

IT is a long time since Lessing refuted the forgotten critic who maintained that good poetry must furnish good subjects for illustration; and the principle laid down in the Laocoön, to the effect that ...