Petrarch was one of the founding fathers of Renaissance humanism, yet the nature and significance of his ideas are still widely debated. In this book, Gur Zak examines two central issues in Petrarch's ...

But it was the Italian poet Petrarch who put the form on the map. In the 14th century, he wrote a collection of 366 poems, mostly sonnets. He penned the collection for a woman named Laura, whom he ...

Organised around Petrarch's 'war' against the Ubaldini clan of 1349–1350, which formed the prelude to his meeting and friendship with Boccaccio, William Caferro's work examines the institutional and ...

Zen types will tell you to accept the itch, to meditate on it, as you might do if you were in pain. These people have no idea ...

M. Butterfly, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Barbican ★★☆☆☆ Puccini’s opera Madam Butterfly is such a ...

In 1942, two pictures were taken within kilometres of each other near Buna in Papua New Guinea. They were later called the ...

International trade brought cultural exchange, and the spread of wealth and knowledge. Yet the 14th-century Italian poet Petrarch called the Middle Ages a lapse into darkness after the “light” of ...

What followed intermission was in effect a new program, of Classical mien, featuring sets of variations. This genre can seem ...

A captivating live Liszt performance by Yunchan Lim, Gramophone's Young Artist of the Year and also winner of the Piano category at the 2024 Gramophone Awards Thanks for exploring the Gramophone ...

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