ITA332H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: De Mulieribus Claris, Petrarch, Certaldo
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It should be fitting now that i stop singing (i ought to stop writing about her) The citizens of heaven admire her beauty for they had not seen, in recent times, such a soul among them. Sonnet 347: prayer to laura that she may pray the maker, the lover may join her soon. Laura is the reason for his suffering but also. Poetry highly stylized, but more concrete than the madonna"s of the sweet new style but still highly stylized. Petrarch is jealous of a rival (the sun itself) jealously is a very worldly concept, the focus of the poet is laura"s beauty. In other poets the poets qualifies other parts like mouth, arms, teeth. Not because of an objective reality but because of the poets subjective reality, we never see this. Laura appears the canzioniere because of her virtues. If she said yes to petrarch the love would die, laura is virtuous.
