Word: petrarch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arises the question how do you acquire an even flow of language? Well I have discovered a very convenient pons assinorum. My little "donkey-bridge" is provided by Messrs. Corneille, Racine Petrarch or any of the minor Latin poets. Read them with all their umtadee-umtadee-um for about five minutes before you go on the air and you will be astonished at the results...
Most valuable of the books on display is a Petrarch "incunabulum Trionfl", printed in Venice in 1497. Also included are an early edition of Boccaccio's "Decameron", printed at Brescia in 1536, and a very rare edition of Boccaccio's "Thirteen Delectable Questions", one of the earliest translations of Boccaccio to be printed in England, published in London...
Dossena's master work was undoubtedly the sculpture of Simone Martini. Simone Martini (1284-1344) was a Sienese, a great painter, a friend of Poet Petrarch, but so far as the world knows he never produced any sculpture. To Alceo Dossena this seemed a great loss. Projecting himself into the personality of Simone Martini, he presented the world with a considerable body of Simone Martini sculpture, of such apparent antiquity and so true to the spirit of his paintings that it was accepted without question by dozens of critics. Two Dossena-Martinis were on view last week...
...than the lands toward which another Italian was sailing in the same year. Entering, he would have found the flower of Venetian scholarship gathered about a table. On it a skillful craftsman was laboriously fashioning little blocks of metal into the forms of graceful letters, using a manuscript of Petrarch's for his model. What conversation he heard would be unintelligible to him, for these men spoke of business not in volatile Italian but in the old tongue of Pindar and Plato...
...labored process of casting words into metal had come to Italy years before, but it was the inspiration of Aldo Manucci which made it a characteristic art of the Renaissance. From the medleval scribesmen, from the letters of Petrarch, he devised the beautiful type which even today is reserved for the greatest books. From the scribesmen also he took the manuscripts on which for centuries they had been perpetuating the classics: he printed them with copious and cloquent notes, and scattered them throughout the libraries of Italy. Out of these the artists of the Renaissance took the sudden vision...