Word: petrarchism
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...Also slighted: Chaucer, Petrarch, Boccaccio, John Wycliffe. *Originally named Red Oaks, renamed by the Colonel after the first real battle of World War I in which U.S. troops (including McCormick) participated...
...sick and demoralized. At least one-fourth of central Europe's population died in the greatest disaster which ever befell the Continent. Half the population of England died. At Avignon the Pope consecrated the Rhone so that corpses could be dumped into it for Christian burial. In Italy Petrarch wept over "the empty houses, the abandoned towns, the squalid country, the fields crowded with the dead, the vast and dreadful solitude over the whole world...
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...