Word: petrarch
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...Formed in 1997 with front man Ian LeFeuvre and Pete Von Althen, Starling doesn't bring anything revolutionary to the music scene, but it does offer a good collection of catchy songs. The album's lyrical content includes traditional, and perhaps clichd, male-centered pop lamentations that would make Petrarch proud. It is Petrarchan pop performed pleasantly, however, as the stories of unattainable girls bumming men out are told with a nicely blended sound...
...Monaco has worked closely with American set and costume designer Michael Scott, both in Bonn, where Del Monaco is artistic director, and on the international circuit. Boccanegra is a triumph of that partnership. The first act's set, again a house and a garden, is closely modeled on Petrarch's villa outside Padua, a mellow, roseate brick with a graceful staircase. To gaze at it is to be transported to the vivid politics of 14th century Genoa...
...Monaco has worked closely with American set and costume designer Michael Scott, both in Bonn, where Del Monaco is artistic director, and on the international circuit. Boccanegra is a triumph of that partnership. The first act's set, again a house and a garden, is closely modeled on Petrarch's villa outside Padua, a mellow, roseate brick with a graceful staircase. To gaze at it is to be transported to the vivid politics of 14th century Genoa...
...Petrarch's rant against the papal court at Avignon in the 14th century sounds like a hyperbolic inventory of life in certain neighborhoods of the late 20th century: "This is a sewer to which all the filths of the universe come to be reunited. Here people despise God, they adore money, they trample underfoot both human laws and divine law. Everything here breathes falsehood: the air, the earth, the houses, and above all, the bedrooms...
...essay: "This great lady, this robust and fertile letter writer, who in our age would probably have been one of the great novelists ..." Thornton Wilder sketched an invidious portrait of the 17th century French author in The Bridge of San Luis Rey; the poet Alphonse Lamartine called her the Petrarch of French prose; Proust compared her art to Dostoyevsky...