#Petrarch

[majestativa]

In this vile world, she is the paradise I’ve desired.

— FRANCESCO PETRARCA ⚜️ Sonnets and Shorter Poems, transl. by David R. Slavitt, (2012)

[coeurdeverre82]

[thebeautifulbook]

Catharine Parr’s copy of Petrarch’s works (1544). Bound in January 1547.

with a commentary by Alessandro Vellutello. [Colors have been restored to show design.]

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Fac tibi in medio animi tui locum ubi lateas ubi gaudeas ubi nullo interpellante requiescas.

- Petrarch

Make a spot in the middle of your mind where you can lie hidden, rejoice, and relax with no one interrupting you.

[upennmanuscripts]

WE UNBOXED THE PETRARCH

Watch!

It's a c. 1470s copy of Canzoniere and Trionfi, with Leonardo Bruni's Life of Petrarch. Made in the Workshop of Francesco di Antonio del Chierico. More information in the sales description.

[drudolart]

"They don't know I climbed a mountain" - Petrarca probably

[kaleb-is-definitely-sane]

I need Nico Di'Angelo to write some (probably bad and extremely) sappy and over the top love poetry about Will. Because honestly, are you a real Italian if you're not writing over the top love poetry about your beloved you met like once?

[italian-lit-tournament]

The participating authors for the Italian Lit(erature) Tournament: the general list WITH the new ADDITIONS + the link to the google form to add the last proposals

John William Waterhouse - The Decameron

The Italian 🔥Lit(erature) Tournament is approaching and new names have been submitted in addition to the ones from the original list! This post is only to remember that the google form will remail open for a while to add the last proposals, plus other few details 👇

You can find the first part of the rules here and link to the survey to add new names here!

Under the cut you'll find the usual list but with the addition of the names from the survey so far, all in italics. Other names that have been submitted but already present on the first list remain in a regular font.

There are 13 new names, of the 18 submitted (5 of them already present as written above).

Dante Alighieri

Sibilla Aleramo

Vittorio Alfieri

Cecco Angiolieri

Pietro Aretino

Ludovico Ariosto

Cletto Arrighi

Matteo Bandello

Anna Banti

Giambattista Basile

Giorgio Bassani

Maria Bellonci

Pietro Bembo

Matteo Maria Boiardo

Giovanni Boccaccio

Giordano Bruno

Dino Buzzati

Italo Calvino

Luigi Capuana

Andrea Camilleri

Giosuè Carducci

Guido Cavalcanti

Fausta Cialente

Carlo Collodi

Vittoria Colonna

Gabriele D'Annunzio

Giacomo da Lentini

Tullia d'Aragona

Alba de Céspedes

Cielo (Ciullo) d'Alcamo

Jacopone da Todi

Federico de Roberto

Edoardo De Filippo

Antonio Fogazzaro

Grazia Deledda

Umberto Eco

Beppe Fenoglio

Dario Fo

Marsilio Ficino

Ennio Flaiano

Ugo Foscolo

Fruttero & Lucentini

Veronica Franco

Carlo Emilio Gadda

Natalia Ginzburg

Carlo Goldoni

Guido Gozzano

Carlo Gozzi

Amelia Guglielmetti

Francesco Guicciardini

Tommaso Landolfi

Giacomo Leopardi

Carlo Levi

Primo Levi

Carla Lonzi

Niccolò Machiavelli

Alessandro Manzoni

Giovanbattista Marino

Giovanni Meli

Alda Merini

Pietro Metastasio

Eugenio Montale

Elsa Morante

Alberto Moravia

Anna Maria Ortese

Giuseppe Parini

Goffredo Parise

Giovanni Pascoli

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Cesare Pavese

Francesco Petrarca

Luigi Pirandello

Angelo Poliziano

Luigi Pulci

Salvator Quasimodo

Gianni Rodari

Lalla Romano

Amelia Rosselli

Umberto Saba

Emilio Salgari

Jacopo Sannazaro

Goliarda Sapienza

Leonardo Sciascia

Matilde Serao

Gaspara Stampa

Mario Rigoni Stern

Italo Svevo

Antonio Tabucchi

Igino Ugo Tarchetti

Torquato Tasso

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Pier Vittorio Tondelli

Giovanni Verga

Renata Viganò

Elio Vittorini

Giuseppe Ungaretti

[laclefdescoeurs]

The Triumph of Death, Liberale da Verona

[silenceintostone]

[enlitment]

Narrator: You're probably wondering how on earth we got into this mess

*record scratch*

*rewind*

[majestativa]

And those eyes that can turn hearts to stone, light up a dark abyss, make night like day, and transport souls by spells.

— FRANCESCO PETRARCA ⚜️ Sonnets and Shorter Poems, transl. by David R. Slavitt, (2012)

[delightful-stains]

It’s time to fight for him, like Vanni would’ve wanted🤺

PETRARCA APOLOGIST pure ringspun cotton in Unisex or slim-fit Softstyle T-Shirt. Now available on my Etsy.

More products coming out soon!!🤍🤍

[exhalereleased]

What a miracle she is, when she sits among the grasses like a flower,

#160 from The Complete Canzoniere by Petrarch

[upennmanuscripts]

For this week's #CoffeeWithACodex (Thursday, March 21, 12pm Noon EST on Zoom) Curator Dot Porter will be joined by SIMS Curator of Manuscripts Nick Herman and Penn PhD student in Italian Studies and Comparative Literature Julia Pelosi-Thorpe to unbox a new manuscript purchase! Petrarch's Canzoniere and Trionfi, with Leonardo Bruni's Life of Petrarch. Written in Florence in the 1470s. You'll get to see it for the first time at the same time we do!

Register here:

[drudolart]

Francesco Petrarca