Congress on #Petrarch #Triumphi
https://www.sns.it/it/evento/i-triumphi-di-petrarca
@italianstudies @romanistikde @fidromanistik @avldigital @renaissance
#Petrarch
To be on the market in a few days: new compendium on #Petrarch
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See Carocci's homepage with a link to the volume's index:
#Neulateinische Neuerscheinung (via The Medieval Review): Yocum, Demetrio S. (ed and trans). Petrarch's Penitential Psalms and Prayers. Series: William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante and Medieval Italian Literature (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2024). https://undpress.nd.edu/9780268207854/petrarchs-penitential-psalms-and-prayers/
When I teach #palaeography I tell my students that the history of handwriting is the history of people. This #manuscript proves it: copied personally by #Petrarch, one of the great poets of the Italian #Renaissance, it ends abruptly at the top of a page, when Petrarch suddenly died in July 1374. We only know this context thanks to painstaking palaeographical and historical research.
Paris, BnF, MS lat. 5784: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84469390/f105.item#
via @huss (https://mstdn.social/@huss/114001283667208796) der Hinweis auf eine #neulateinische Neuerscheinung: Comiati, Giacomo. „Translations and Adaptations of Petrarch|s Poems in Girolamo Cicala’s Carmina (1649)“. Petrarchism. Competing Models for Early Modern Community Building (1400–1700), herausgegeben von Bernhard Huss, Winter, 2025, S. 141–56.
Just published: Huss&Longinotti, PETRARCHAN TEMPORALITIES UNDER CONSTRUCTION
#earlymodern #Petrarch #Petrarchism @fidromanistik @avldigital @italianstudies @renaissance @litstudies
“‘I daily listen to your words with more attention than one would believe, and perhaps I shall not be thought impertinent in wishing to be heard by you,’ wrote the Italian poet Petrarch in 1348. His addressee was the Roman philosopher Seneca, who had died nearly thirteen centuries before. […]“
— https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/06/20/livelier-than-the-living-a-marvelous-solitude/
Well, reading is “livelier than the living”, according to Catherine Nicholson in The New York Review of Books.
new #Neolatin publication (via @huss) on #Petrarchs Africa: Huss, Bernhard, und Daniel Melde. 2024. „Der Dichter als Augenzeuge. Historizitätserwartungen in der Gattungstradition der Epik“. In Der Tumult der Anfänge und das Versickern am Ende, herausgegeben von Bernhard Huss, Bernd Roling, und Anita Traninger, 133–62. De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111624426-007.
#CfP for the Graduate Student Conference "Republic of Letters: The #Scholar and Scholarly Communities from #Petrarch to the Present", which will take place at Johns Hopkins University on April 4–5, 2025
🗓️Deadline for abstracts: November 15
📌Further information:
https://www.avldigital.de/de/vernetzen/details/callforpapers/republic-of-letters-the-scholar-and-scholarly-communities-from-petrarch-to-the-present-baltimore/ #fidavlnews @litstudies @italianstudies @germanistik #LiteratureHistory #LiteraryHistory
Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) was born in Arezzo #OTD in 1304.
Katia Ricciarelli sings Liszt's setting of I vidi in terra angelici costumi at Carnegie Hall in 1983, with Martin Katz at the piano.
It's very beautiful, this.
"The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling."
10 Petrarch quotes:
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2024/07/20-july-petrarch-quotes.html
A two-year position for a postdoctoral fellow in Italian Studies (#Petrarch in Global #Translation) starting September 2024 is available at the University of Vienna.
🗓️Deadline for Applications: May 15, 2024
📌Further Information:
https://avldigital.de/de/vernetzen/details/job/postdoctoral-fellow-in-italian-studies-petrarch-in-global-translation-vienna/ #LiteratureTranslation @italianstudies @germanistik @litstudies
Thanks @plaguepoems for prompting me to look up this remarkable image, 'The Triumph of Death' from a manuscript of Petrarch's Triumphs dated c.1503-5, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b60007856/f277.item
Petrarch's beloved Laura died in 1348 during the first onslaught of plague; his son John in 1361 during the second.
🎨 BnF Français 594, f.135r
#plague #Petrarch #14thCentury #BnF #manuscript @medievodons
#Neulateinische Neuerscheinung: Harper, E. (2023). Mountains, meaning, mediation: Petrarch’s ‘Ascent to Mont Ventoux’ (1336) and the ecological imagination of classical Chinese poetry. Postmedieval. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41280-023-00293-z
#waterfallwednesday in Fontaine-de-Vaucluse, #France. This is where the poet #Petrarch lived in the 14th century.
Ron DeSantis, Winston Churchill, Leon Trotsky, and Petrarch. #111Words #RonDeSantis #WinstonChurchill #LeonTrotsky #Petrarch #DustbinOfHistory #WeWillNeverSurrender https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2023/06/ron-desantis-winston-churchill-leon.html
In 14th-century Italy, the scholar and poet #Petrarch made stronger claims about the effects of accumulating #books:
"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(1304-1374) #bookmania
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
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
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