Word: petrarchism
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...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...
...Livingood '88 of Cincinnati, Ohio, has given the Dunster House Library 15 volumes on Petrarch, consisting of early editions and a few later essays. They are all very rare, and are considered valuable...
...Harvard sophomore. Cornell never drew young socialites from smart Eastern schools. Once it did draw serious young men in search of a thorough, modern education Now it has little to offer. Its teachers, sadly underpaid, are at best average. Its library, once unequalled, still boasting great collections (Dante, Petrarch, Icelandic) is slowly decaying in Willard Fiske's old building. Lack of funds prevents the erection of a new one; prevents the purchase of enough new books; limits the staff to a few hardworked, underpaid librarians. No gymnasium has Cornell; nor has it a swimming pool. It has few dormitories...
...Petrarch's Sonnets and the English Petrarchians," Professor Rollins, Sever...