“ 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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

WE often speak as though there were something peculiarly honorable and sacred in a firm friendship between two authors of repute; and yet we surely know that no code of the unwritten law of life is ...