Word: petrarchism
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Lord Houghton, at the Scott Centenary, said of the world's great litterateurs, that they have seldom left descendants. England has no Shakespeare, no Milton, no Bacon, no Newton, no Pope, no Byron; Italy has no Dante, no Petrarch, no Alfieri, no Ariosto; Germany has no Goethe, no Schiller, no Heine; and France has no Montaigne, no Voltaire, and no Descartes...
...ancient Rome, and where the knowledge of Latin literature had never altogether died out, that the revival first took place. It may be said to have been begun early in the twelfth century with the study of Roman law. But it was not until two centuries later that Petrarch revived the study of the Latin classics. The promised land, however, of Greek antiquity he was only permitted to see from Pisgah. He could only weep over the Homer he could not read. The first Greek student of Western Europe was Boccaccio, and he was never more than a student...
...famous Ossuna library. The price asked by the Ossuna family is said to be six million francs. The library was formed by the Duke of Ossuna, who was governor of Milan under Charles IV., of Spain, from 1670 to 1674. The most valuable contents of the library are the Petrarch manuscripts...
...more of Nizami, who celebrated the exploits of Alexander in a long epic called "Sekander-Kamed," and who, besides writing "Khosau and Shirin," wrote a most exquisite and touching love-episode, "Larli and Magnun," which takes about the same place in Persian literature as do "Abelard and Eloisa," "Petrarch and Laura," in the literature of France and Italy? "Larli and Magnun" has been translated into English by Mr. James Atkinson, who has also translated Firdansi's "Shah-Nameh," the history of the ancient kings of Persia. Or why did Mr. Emerson not speak of the "Adventures and Improvisations of Kourroglou...