Great. I made #ChatGPT write a short essay on #Petrarch’s #Triumphs and the early history of the reception of the text and learned that the TRIUMPHI had a strong impact on important later authors of the Renaissance, among them #Dante Alighieri. 

#waterfallwednesday in Fontaine-de-Vaucluse, #France. This is where the poet #Petrarch lived in the 14th century.

"Believe me, this is not nourishing the mind with literature, but killing and burying it with the weight of things or, perhaps, tormenting it until, frenzied by so many matters, this mind can no longer taste anything, but stares longingly at everything, like Tantalus thirsting in the midst of water." #Petrarch

Very important publication for Petrarchan studies and the history of #humanism: huge critical edition of #Petrarch’s annotations to #Pliny’s #NaturalisHistoria @renaissance @neolatin @italianstudies @histodons @medievodons

Very important publication for Petrarchan studies and the history of #humanism: huge critical edition of #Petrarch’s annotations to #Pliny’s #NaturalisHistoria @renaissance @neolatin @italianstudies @histodons @medievodons

in the closed vale (Vaucluse*)

long #poem by Shonin Risa Bear

https://risashome.blogspot.com/2019/10/in-closed-vale.html

this was an attempt to re-imagine #Petrarch for a university course in the late 90s. The professor was expecting a paper, not a poem, and a paper was subsequently written. Anyway, I had fun. 😄 #poetry

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fontaine-de-Vaucluse

Details of Lady with a book of Petrarch’s rhyme by Andrea del Sarto (1528).

#Art #ItalianArt #Petrarch #RenaissanceArt

📷 aqua-regia009 - https://aqua-regia009.tumblr.com/post/669318002862342144/lady-with-a-book-of-petrarchs-rhyme-detail

Just received a Tweet from Francesco #Petrarch who told his followers that he is leaving #Twitter because of Elon #Musk. I guess I will imitate him, as usual. #LitStudies #Philologie #philology #litodons