Poetry for Sunday: Petrarch’s musical rivers
People seemed to enjoy last week’s Poetry for Sunday so I thought I’d try another one this week… A quick search online revealed this wonderful gallery at the Beinecke Library (Yale) site. Petrarch’s...
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From the “Sunday poetry” department… Above: In this Renaissance illuminated manuscript (painted book), Petrarch and Laura appear on the banks of a river. Laura, the river (the Sorgue), and the laurel...
View ArticleAn orange, natural wine from the Veneto (and my very own mimetic desire)
Above: One of my favorite places in the world, a scene from Petrarch’s house in the hilltop town of Arquà in the heart of the Colli Eugenei (the Euganean Hills) in the province of Padua. One of my...
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