Today marks the anniversary of Petrarch's birth in 1304.

So let us listen to Katia Ricciarelli singing I' vidi in terra angelici costumi from Liszt's Petrarch Sonnets at Carnegie Hall in 1983, with Martin Katz at the piano.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHkf-Q19q_Q

@classicalmusic #Petrarch #Liszt

Congress on #Petrarch #Triumphi

https://www.sns.it/it/evento/i-triumphi-di-petrarca

@italianstudies @romanistikde @fidromanistik @avldigital @renaissance

To be on the market in a few days: new compendium on #Petrarch

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@italianstudies
@neolatin

See Carocci's homepage with a link to the volume's index:

https://www.carocci.it/prodotto/petrarca?srsltid=AfmBOooka_pa_DsmCD_ixBLp3B1V6qOSLwncXGS4I3SusIbwKKfo-XzH

#Neulatein​ische Neuerscheinung (via The Medieval Review): Yocum, Demetrio S. (ed and trans). Petrarch's Penitential Psalms and Prayers. Series: William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante and Medieval Italian Literature (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2024). https://undpress.nd.edu/9780268207854/petrarchs-penitential-psalms-and-prayers/

#Petrarch #neolatin @neolatin

When I teach #palaeography I tell my students that the history of handwriting is the history of people. This #manuscript proves it: copied personally by #Petrarch, one of the great poets of the Italian #Renaissance, it ends abruptly at the top of a page, when Petrarch suddenly died in July 1374. We only know this context thanks to painstaking palaeographical and historical research.

Paris, BnF, MS lat. 5784: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84469390/f105.item#

@histodons @medievodons @historikerinnen @bookstodon

via @huss (https://mstdn.social/@huss/114001283667208796) der Hinweis auf eine #neulatein​ische Neuerscheinung: Comiati, Giacomo. „Translations and Adaptations of Petrarch|s Poems in Girolamo Cicala’s Carmina (1649)“. Petrarchism. Competing Models for Early Modern Community Building (1400–1700), herausgegeben von Bernhard Huss, Winter, 2025, S. 141–56.

#petrarch #neolatin @neolatin

“‘I daily listen to your words with more attention than one would believe, and perhaps I shall not be thought impertinent in wishing to be heard by you,’ wrote the Italian poet Petrarch in 1348. His addressee was the Roman philosopher Seneca, who had died nearly thirteen centuries before. […]“

— https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/06/20/livelier-than-the-living-a-marvelous-solitude/

Well, reading is “livelier than the living”, according to Catherine Nicholson in The New York Review of Books.

#reading #Petrarch