Petrarch

Petrarch's Sonnets



2015 Poem Highlights Assignment 2014 Petrarch Assignment

To help think of the first drat topic, consider the following: Dante did not feel he was ready to write properly about Beatrice by the end of his Vita Nuova because he hadn't become spiritual enough, while Petrarch writes "properly" (christianely) three poems about Laura at the end of his sequence. Was Petrarch believable?

C/C Dante and Petrarch's attitudes about writing and fame c/c Dante and Petrarch's understand of the role of nature and human nature in love and humanity c/c Dante and Petrarch's use of the classics in their sequence and thought

A link to the translator's page: A.S. Kline [|Kline's Petrarch Page]

The second page of this file has a page describing the Homework Assignments for Petrarch, a calendar, and extra credit assignments.

2014 HH articles:

Week 1: NONE Week 2: NONE Week 3: NONE Week 4: Introduction WEEK 5: Choose from the following:





Extra Credit: David Young’s Introduction

The translator, David Young, provides some very helpful analysis of severl of Petrarch’s poems.

These can be read and responded to for extra credit. Below is the breakdown of which collection of

poems the parts of the introduction deal with.

Poems 60 – 90: pages ix - xvi.

Poems 181 – 210: pages xvi - xix.

Poems 271 – 300: pages xix - end.