Petrarch

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Standard Name: Petrarch
Birth Name: Francesco Petrarca
Nickname: Petrarch

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Travel Anne Plumptre
Taking advantage of the new freedom of English people to visit post-Revolutionary France, she joined forces with John and Amelia Opie to travel first to Paris. She stayed there for eight months (not enough...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text L. E. L.
However, LEL's version of the narratives of her female precursors presents a complex layering of voices framed by that of her Florentine improvisatrice. Even though the speaker has poured [her] full and burning heart /...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anna Swanwick
AS declares at the outset her belief in the progressive development of the human race, and in the contribution that poetry makes to pushing on that development as well as to witnessing and recording it...
Textual Production Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre
The modesty in these prefatory remarks seems to relate only or chiefly to her plays, but the first poems in the collection (versions of Petrarch ) are preceded by a sonnet to Thomas James Mathias
Textual Production John Millington Synge
Apart from his plays and his folklore work, JMS wrote and published, early in his short career, a handful of poems, essays, and book reviews. He left translations from Villon and Petrarch , and an...
Textual Production Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre
Translations from Petrarch 's sonnets by BBBD , collected in Dramas, Translations and Occasional Poems, 1821, also appeared in a different form the same year: Ugo Foscolo reprinted them at the end of his...
Textual Production Anne Bannerman
The poems were Exile, Sonnet: at the Sepulchre of Petrarch (translated from Italian), The Fall of Switzerland, The Nereid, and the sonnets Good Friday, and Easter Day. All appeared in...
Textual Production Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
In another collaborative venture, ENC joined with her brother Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin and with David Parris in editing Translation and Censorship: Patterns of Communication and Interference, 2009. (She had collaborated with Deirdre Serjeantson and...
Textual Production Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke , completed a poem translated from Petrarch : The Triumph of Death.
Waller, Gary F. Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke: A Critical Study of Her Writings and Literary Milieu. University of Salzburg, http://BLC.
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Textual Production Anne Burke
AB 's novel was advertised for sale on 21 July.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
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The title-page quotes Petrarch in the original Italian, and the preface makes the claim that the author is really only an editor, transmitting...
Textual Production Queen Elizabeth I
In old age QEI translated Boethius, Plutarch, Tacitus , and Horace. Most of this work was printed as Queen Elizabeth's Englishings, 1899. Her rendering of the opening passage of Petrarch 's The Triumph of...
Textual Production Mona Caird
One of MC 's best-known novels appeared: The Daughters of Danaus (the first novel among the selection mentioned in the Times after her death, and reprinted by the Feminist Press in 1989).
In Greek mythology...
Textual Production Christina Rossetti
In 1856, CR published an historical short story, The Lost Titian, in The Crayon, a small magazine published in New York.
Smulders, Sharon. Christina Rossetti Revisited. Twayne.
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Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking.
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. She also wrote some non-fiction on Italian writers (including...
Textual Production Germaine Greer
GG has published a good deal in her scholarly field of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century women's writing. Her anthology (with Susan Hastings , Jeslyn Medoff and Melinda Sansone ), Kissing the Rod, has played an...
Textual Production Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre
BBBD 's almost-final publication (again privately printed, in a limited edition of a hundred and fifty copies by C. Whittingham ) had two title-pages: Traduzioni dall'italiano and Translations from the Italian. This too was...

Timeline

1349: Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch), Italian father...

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1349

Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch ), Italian father of the sonnet, circulated in manuscript his Canzoniere or Rime sparse or Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta, which include his most famous love poems to Laura (who, he wrote, had recently died).

1776: Maria Maddelena Morelli, or Corilla Olimpica,...

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1776

Maria Maddelena Morelli , or Corilla Olimpica, a member of the Italian Accademia degli Arcadi , was crowned on the Capitoline Hill in Rome (as Petrarch had been before her).

Texts

Petrarch,. Petrarch’s View of Human Life. Translator Dobson, Susannah, J. Stockdale, 1791.
Petrarch,. The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch. G. Bell and Sons, 1879.
Hume, Anna, and Petrarch. The Triumphs of Love: Chastitie: Death: Translated out of Petrarch. 1644.