Word: petrarchism
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...Tilden '05 Pathos d'Artagan de Marsac de Trop, a cadet of Gascony, B. Joy '05 ?, his absent-minded servant, who has forgotten other things about as well as his name, G. H. Field '06 Laura, maid-of-honor to Lucrezia, C. S. Bird, Jr., '06 Alfred Dante Petrarch, poet extraordinary to Machiavelli, W. P. Sanger '05 Father Tediu, confident as to the future life, but by no means averse to the present one, S. C. Adams '05 Giuseppe di Lutto, Machiavelli's great grandfather, R. N. Bldwin...
...undying memories of Virgil, and thence to Ferrara, celebrated for the massive towers of its moated castle. Dr. Sandys then touched upon Naples, where we may see the lofty arch of the Castello Nuovo. Here the centre of classic interest lies in the tomb of Virgil, over which Petrarch is said to have planted a laured tree. At Naples flourished the critic Laurentius Valla, who afterwards lived in Rome under the patronage of Pope Nicholas...
...daughter, W. M. Tilden '05 Giuseppi di Luto, Machiavelli's great-grandfather, J. D. Nichols '06 Parthos d'Artagan de Marsac de Trop, cadet of Gascony, B. Joy '05 ?, his absent-minded servant, G. H. Field '06 Laura, Lucrezia's tiring-woman, C. S. Bird, Jr., '06 Alfred Dante Petrarch, W. P. Sanger '05 Father Tedium, C. S. Adams...
...century were discovering the worked; and the discovery of man is evidenced by the awakening of the human spirit from the sleep of the Middle Ages to human individuality and a vital sense of man's dignity. With this came also an awakened interest in the Latin authors. Following Petrarch's discovery of some of Cicero's correspondence came the discovery of the remainder by Niccoli, who was the founder of textual criticism. Poggio, a Papal secretary, was the discoverer of many Latin manuscripts, and by 1433, a century after Petrarch, he has discovered or assisted in the discovery...
Closely associated with Petrarch is Boccaccio. Like the Florentine, he was early attracted by Latin and Greek literature. He especially admired Livy and Tacitus, whom he frequently quoted in his epistles. His most famous work is a "Follo on Mythology," the earliest book on the subject. As with Petrarch, Boccaccio's greatest service to literature was his preservation of ancient manuscripts...