Of all the world's great writers, Petrarch is the best known for losing his head. On Good Friday in 1327, the then 23-year-old writer and scholar fell madly - and forlornly - in love with a woman he ...

The 14th century Italian poet Francesco Petrarch left hundreds of letters detailing his life and thoughts. Now scientists plan to dig up his remains to find out more about his flesh and bones.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Canzoniere: 'Peace I do not find, and I have no wish to make war' - INTERFOTO / Alamy Stock Photo Today marks the 650th ...

Six hundred years ago, on the 20th of July, 1304, a little Florentine baby was born into exile in a house on Via deli’ Orto in Arezzo, whither his father, banished from Florence, had fled. Civil war ...

On Francesco Petrarch’s love, hate, and precision of feeling. The outer restlessness of his migratory life found its analogue in an inner turbulence which allowed him little of the peace he sought. It ...

Franz Liszt had his share of love affairs, and also his share of heartbreaks. Perhaps that's what drew him to the work of Petrarch, and his many sonnets about love. From a recital at the 2006 Aspen ...

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Jamie James is a critic and the author of "The Music of the Spheres." When the Modernist magi T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound laid down the canons of literary taste that still hold sway today, largely ...