CFI-UF 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Latin Literature, Elegy, Earthly Love
4 Apr 2016
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Francesco petrarca (1304-1374, cleric a cleric is employed by the church (served the cardinal) but was not ordained a priest and did not belong to any church order. Secretary to the cardinal: represented crowned with a laurel, laureate poet, life. After 1326 (father"s death) - study of ancient greek and latin literature. His was the largest private library in europe: donated to the venetian. 26 april: triumphs - a poem in vernacular. Fame - he preferred plato to aristotle. Time - elegy on the passing time. Eternity - refuge in god: petrarca"s contributions. Created a code of love poetry based on the connection between nature and the lover"s beauty. Created a canon of beauty: blond curls, bright eyes, snow white cheeks. Expressed the tension between the aspiration to salvation and the temptation of earthly love. Created the form of the sonnet: the petrachan sonnet, made of two stanzas of four verses and two stanzas of three verses: https://newclasses. nyu. edu/access/content/group/2f9d59b5-3df5-47c3-9d02-
