Francesco Petrarca (1340-1374)
Italian poet and humanist, considered the first and one of the most important modern lyric poets. His development of the sonnet influenced many later poets, from the English Garcilaso de la Vega and Quevedo to William Shakespeare. His extensive knowledge of ancient scholars and language classical Latin earned him the reputation of "the first great humanist." Also contributed to the final establishment of Italian as a literary language. His belief in the continuity and relationship between traditional culture and Christian doctrines led him to boost European humanism, a perfect synthesis of both the pagan and Christian.
born in Tuscany, but was moved to Avignon (France) with his family when he was eight. He studied law at the University of Bologna. After the death of his father, returned to Avignon in 1330 where he gave the church votes minors. This way of life give him time to pursue his passion: writing.
In 1327 he met Laura, the woman who inspired all his love poetry, and never accounted for. The passion I felt for her Petrarca has become proverbial for its constancy and purity.
was respected throughout his life. In 1341 he was appointed poet laureate by the Senate of Rome.
Arquà died in in 1374.
Petrarch wrote in Latin and Italian. The poem you are going to post part of the work entitled Songbook, a collection of sonnets and odes inspired almost all of them in his unrequited love for Laura. These poems perfectly reflect the character of the poet and his passionate love in an Italian extremely melodious and refined vernacular.
In the Cancionero confluence of three streams: the Provencal tradition of courtly love, the poetry of the Sicilian court and the dolce stil nuovo. The book is divided into two parts: the life of Laura and Laura's death.
This book gives rise to Petrarchism , literary movement archetype of formal perfection and the new Renaissance poetic sensibility that is characterized by:
1. Utlized poetic language clean, refined and elegant, simple and delicious at once, which include literary figures based on the opposition (antithesis, paradox, oxymoron) and especially metaphors.
2. In terms of topics, you can see the influence of the Provencal love viewed as a feeling that ennobles the lover.
3. Formal innovation lies in the renewal measure: masterful job of pentameter in sonnets and songs.
4. Also of note is the poetic motif of the damage of love expressed through references to wounds caused by arrows and spears, fire (love that burns) or prisons (love as a link or network).
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