Word: petrarch
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...amusing, but not consistent, even for the purposes of comic opera. For Gascon Abandon and D'Artagnan-like swagger B. Joy '05 was all that the part of DeTrop required, and his songs "Soldiers of Fortune" and "Gascony" gave life even to the well-trained chorus. "Alfred Dante Petrarch," "Castles in Spain," and "Araby" were sung with good enunciation and graceful action by W. P. Sawyer '05, as the court poet. Lack of opportunities limited the otherwise effective work of S. C. Adams '05 and C. S. Bird...
...Tilden '05 Pathos d'Artagan de Marsac de Trop, a cadet of Gascony, B. Joy '05 ?, his absent-minded servant, who has forgotten other things about as well as his name, G. H. Field '06 Laura, maid-of-honor to Lucrezia, C. S. Bird, Jr., '06 Alfred Dante Petrarch, poet extraordinary to Machiavelli, W. P. Sanger '05 Father Tediu, confident as to the future life, but by no means averse to the present one, S. C. Adams '05 Giuseppe di Lutto, Machiavelli's great grandfather, R. N. Bldwin...
...undying memories of Virgil, and thence to Ferrara, celebrated for the massive towers of its moated castle. Dr. Sandys then touched upon Naples, where we may see the lofty arch of the Castello Nuovo. Here the centre of classic interest lies in the tomb of Virgil, over which Petrarch is said to have planted a laured tree. At Naples flourished the critic Laurentius Valla, who afterwards lived in Rome under the patronage of Pope Nicholas...
...daughter, W. M. Tilden '05 Giuseppi di Luto, Machiavelli's great-grandfather, J. D. Nichols '06 Parthos d'Artagan de Marsac de Trop, cadet of Gascony, B. Joy '05 ?, his absent-minded servant, G. H. Field '06 Laura, Lucrezia's tiring-woman, C. S. Bird, Jr., '06 Alfred Dante Petrarch, W. P. Sanger '05 Father Tedium, C. S. Adams...
...century were discovering the worked; and the discovery of man is evidenced by the awakening of the human spirit from the sleep of the Middle Ages to human individuality and a vital sense of man's dignity. With this came also an awakened interest in the Latin authors. Following Petrarch's discovery of some of Cicero's correspondence came the discovery of the remainder by Niccoli, who was the founder of textual criticism. Poggio, a Papal secretary, was the discoverer of many Latin manuscripts, and by 1433, a century after Petrarch, he has discovered or assisted in the discovery...