{"id":19942,"date":"2022-02-10T02:36:18","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T01:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/?p=19942"},"modified":"2022-02-10T02:36:18","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T01:36:18","slug":"love-with-francesco-petrarca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/love-with-francesco-petrarca\/","title":{"rendered":"Love with Francesco Petrarca"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ciao a tutti!<\/em><\/p>\n

San Valentino is right around the corner, so I thought I’d share a 700 year old love story.<\/p>\n

Francesco Petrarca<\/b> was an Italian renaissance poet and scholar. He is also credited with rediscovering the letters of Cicero, a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar and philosopher. This rediscovery is said to have actually initiated the 14th-century Renaissance in public affairs, humanism, and classical Roman culture, and is why he is known as the “father of the Renaissance.”<\/sup><\/p>\n

But despite all of that, Petrarca, commonly anglicized as Petrarch, was simply a man in love.<\/p>\n

His collection of Italian verses, known as the “Canzoniere” in English: “Petrarch’s Sonnets,” was inspired by his unrequited passion for Laura, a young\u00a0 woman he first saw in the church of Sainte-Claire d’Avignon. Her true identity isn’t certain, but it is thought that she was Frenchwoman Laura de Noves, and she denied him because she was already married.<\/p>\n

Apparently they had little or no contact, but this first sight of her in 1327 was enough for him to long for her until her death from the plague in 1348, when he then found his grief was just as difficult to bear. All in all, he wrote 366 sonnets dedicated to her.<\/p>\n

Later in his life Petrarch wrote: “In my younger days I struggled constantly with an overwhelming but pure love affair\u2014my only one, and I would have struggled with it longer had not premature death, bitter but salutary for me, extinguished the cooling flames. I certainly wish I could say that I have always been entirely free from desires of the flesh, but I would be lying if I did”.<\/p>\n

Sonnet 227<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n
Italian<\/sup><\/th>\nEnglish<\/sup><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
\n
\n

Aura che quelle chiome bionde et crespe<\/em>
\ncercondi et movi, et se\u2019 mossa da loro,<\/em>
\nsoavemente, et spargi quel dolce oro,<\/em>
\net poi \u2019l raccogli, e \u2019n bei nodi il rincrespe,<\/em><\/p>\n

tu stai nelli occhi ond\u2019amorose vespe<\/em>
\nmi pungon s\u00ed, che \u2019nfin qua il sento et ploro,<\/em>
\net vacillando cerco il mio tesoro,<\/em>
\ncome animal che spesso adombre e \u2019ncespe:<\/em><\/p>\n

ch\u2019or me \u2019l par ritrovar, et or m\u2019accorgo<\/em>
\nch\u2019i\u2019 ne son lunge, or mi sollievo or caggio,<\/em>
\nch\u2019or quel ch\u2019i\u2019 bramo, or quel ch\u2019\u00e8 vero scorgo.<\/em><\/p>\n

A\u00ebr felice, col bel vivo raggio<\/em>
\nrimanti; et tu corrente et chiaro gorgo,<\/em>
\nch\u00e9 non poss\u2019io cangiar teco v\u00efaggio?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n

\n
\n

Breeze, blowing that blonde curling hair,
\nstirring it, and being softly stirred in turn,
\nscattering that sweet gold about, then
\ngathering it, in a lovely knot of curls again,<\/p>\n

you linger around bright eyes whose loving sting
\npierces me so, till I feel it and weep,
\nand I wander searching for my treasure,
\nlike a creature that often shies and kicks:<\/p>\n

now I seem to find her, now I realize
\nshe\u2019s far away, now I\u2019m comforted, now despair,
\nnow longing for her, now truly seeing her.<\/p>\n

Happy air, remain here with your
\nliving rays: and you, clear running stream,
\nwhy can\u2019t I exchange my path for yours?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

 <\/p>\n

Buon San Valentino e viva l’amore!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Photo from Pixabay, CCO.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

Ciao a tutti! San Valentino is right around the corner, so I thought I’d share a 700 year old love story. Francesco Petrarca was an Italian renaissance poet and scholar. He is also credited with rediscovering the letters of Cicero, a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar and philosopher. This rediscovery is said to have actually initiated…<\/p>\n

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