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Petrarch

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Yet have I oft been beaten in the field, And sometimes hurt," said I, "but scorn'd to yield." He smiled and said: "Alas! thou dost not see, My son, how great a flame's prepared for thee.


— Petrarch


#love #mysticism #inspirational

True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.


— Petrarch


#always #because #life #living #love

A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.


— Petrarch


#desires #our #riches #short #short cut

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.


— Petrarch


#how #little #love #much #say

Books have led some to learning and others to madness.


— Petrarch


#learning #led #madness #others #some

Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.


— Petrarch


#friendship #suspicion

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.


— Petrarch


#dwell #great #rarely #together #virtue

Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.


— Petrarch


#disgust #mother #sameness #variety

And tears are heard within the harp I touch.


— Petrarch


#heard #i #tears #touch #within

Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?


— Petrarch


#any #blessing #dangerous #desire #found






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Did you know about Petrarch?

The nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt noted that Jean Buridan had climbed the same mountain a few years before and ascents accompliPetrarchd during the Middle Ages have been recorded including that of Anno II Archbishop of Cologne. In 1345 he personally discovered a collection of Cicero's letters not previously known to have existed the collection ad Atticum. Petrarch is often called the "Father of Humanism".

Petrarch would be later endorsed as a model for Italian style by the Accademia della Crusca. Petrarch's sonnets were admired and imitated throughout Europe during the Renaissance and became a model for lyrical poetry.

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