#(it makes me think of a poem I read in the context of the Scapigliatura
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I love failed patricides
#believe it or not this is (also) about Dante and Petrarca#something about the ghost of the father that keeps hunting you#you want him dead because he steals your thunder and you'll never be as famous or as great as him#and yet you still can't kill him because you need him#I just think that the relationship between Dante and Petrarca (one-sided because they met when Petrarca was what.. seven years old?)#is so fascinating#one one hand look at him distancing himself as much as possible from the man who'll later be considered thee father of the Italian language#(I love how he literally said he hadn't read the Commedia.. really Francesco? really?)#on the other hand he just can't because no one can escape from Dante anymore#(it makes me think of a poem I read in the context of the Scapigliatura#where you could find the need to 'kill' Manzoni because his authority was suffocating)#anyway yeah.. pretty cool methinks#personal#francesco petrarca
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