Word: petrarch
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...worry, this store has close to a dozen different French-English dictionaries. If your taste runs more to Dickinson than Danish, head around to Grolier Book Shop on Plympton St. Grolier expounds the karma of poetry hang around to catch occasional readings, book parties for modern day Petrarch as well as the Square's most extensive poetry collection...
...perhaps, if fortune turns her face in kindness upon me before I go, I may chance, some quiet day, to lay my over-beating temples on a book, and so have the death I most envy." Plato was reputedly found dead with a book under his pillow, Petrarch in his library with his elbow resting on an open page. Books gave them more than solace. They were their lives extended, a way of touching eternity. "Go, litel book!" wrote Chaucer at the end of Troilus and Criseyde, sending his work on a journey that no man could complete...
...some sense of the word." He goes on to explain: "Classes have a rhythm, the semester has a rhythm. A piece of work has a rhythm; and in this particular situation, there is never that sense of completion." He doesn't know why he chose to temporarily abandon Petrarch and Spencer--temporarily because he plans to go back to the classroom as soon as he can. Instead, he can only recall that when the pace quickened this fall, as students returned to the Old Campus, there was some impulse in him to "start up again that way. And then...
...their purple or red gowns and furred hoods, doctors were persons of important status. Allowed extra luxury by the sumptuary laws, they wore belts of silver thread, embroidered gloves, and, according to Petrarch's annoyed report, presumptuously donned golden spurs when they rode to their visits attended by a servant. Their wives were permitted greater expenditure on clothes than other women, perhaps in recognition of the large fees doctors could command. Not all were learned professors. Boccaccio's Doctor Simon was a proctologist who had a chamber pot painted over his door to indicate his specialty...
...such testimonies to the power of love when one of the partners is utterly unworthy to the idea that it is not who love is for but the love itself that is significant.. Adele throws herself into her passion with all the depth and purity of Juliet or Petrarch--but her lover is no Romeo or Laura, only a devil-may-care womanizing young lieutenant in the 16th Hussars...