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 ...
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 ...
Its originator, Giacomo da Lentini, was a poet in the Kingdom of Sicily who had been inspired by older Arabic and French poetry. But it was the Italian poet Petrarch who put the form on the map. In ...
My interest in this area stems back to my undergraduate days at Cambridge, where a course on comparative literature introduced me to the poetry of the Henrician courtier Thomas Wyatt and his ...
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 ...