Laura de noves and petrarch laura

Some animals enjoy such special powers of sight. Still others are possessed to launch themselves in flight. Alas, in this last company am I. Fate forces me to gaze on her when she appears,. Love is paradoxical. Comfort and Isolation. It can enrich us and it can destroy us.

Petrarch sonnet 227

It can give us hope while taking that very same hope away.. Need I go on? Francesco Petrarch would get it. He had a vibrant and varied life, travelling widely as an ambassador, recovering significant writings from the likes of Cicero and Homer, and was best friends with Boccaccio himself talk about VIP. For Petrarch, rediscovering the tongues of Classical Latin and Greek texts was a way of reentering the world of Classical thought and imagination, a purer mode of understanding oneself and the world—a way of reconciling the pagan past how does man really feel?