In new book, UChicago’s Ada Palmer explores popular misunderstandings of the Renaissance and historical myths used for ...
The City of Avon Lake is another step closer to a new sidewalk and pedestrian system along Lake Road after engineering ...
The new Italian production of 'The Leopard' recently released on Netflix is certainly watchable but its deviations from the ...
On April 26, 1336, the poet Petrarch, accompanied by his younger brother, climbed up the windy slopes of Mount Ventoux in the ...
The eventful Avignon Papacy included three different popes ruling at the same time and an Irish king complaining about the ...
From the stone circles of the Neolithic through the glories of Rome and the Renaissance to the ravages of the world wars, ...
It’s healthy, however, for younger artists to test their limits. Cho attracted international notice when he won the Chopin ...
After sustained applause, and curtain calls, Lim was induced to play an encore: he played one of Liszt’s Petrarch sonnets, “Pace non trovo.” I thought once again of the universality of music. Lim, ...
Scattered through the pages are bits of acceptable but uninspired Italian poetry — Leonardo was no Petrarch — and snippets of mild Neoplatonist philosophy — Leonardo was no Ficino.
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The philosophical genius we all need to readFortune’s mutability is therefore unchanging, a part of God’s providential plan. Petrarch frequently quoted from Boethius, even writing his own Remedies for Fortune both Good and Ill.
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