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    A Study Guide for Petrarch's "Sonnet (Rime) 140"
    A Study Guide for Petrarch's "Sonnet (Rime) 140"
    A Study Guide for Petrarch's "Sonnet (Rime) 140"
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    A Study Guide for Petrarch's "Sonnet (Rime) 140"

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    A Study Guide for Petrarch's "Sonnet (Rime) 140," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 28, 2016
    ISBN9781535833660
    A Study Guide for Petrarch's "Sonnet (Rime) 140"

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      A Study Guide for Petrarch's "Sonnet (Rime) 140" - Gale

      13

      Rime 140

      Francesco Petrarch

      1374

      Introduction

      Francesco Petrarch is one of the most important literary and cultural figures in Western civilization. He is principally responsible for the shift in thought that marks the beginning of the Renaissance as a reaction against the Middle Ages. In his life, he was highly regarded for his classical scholarship and his Latin poetry. Petrarch became the first poet laureate (a title largely of his own invention), beginning a tradition still continued in the appointment of a poet laureate of such countries as the United States. However, today the only works of Petrarch's that are widely read are his poems in Italian, the main subject of which is his love for Laura. In these poems, he created the modern sonnet form, which became a dominant style of verse in English in the works of Shakespeare and many other poets.

      The mysterious figure of Laura is a complex mixture of allegory and reality. While she represents poetry and many other abstract concepts to Petrarch, Laura was most likely a real woman whom Petrarch knew only slightly, despite her dominion over his inner life. In Rime (or Sonnet) 140, Petrarch's reason is nearly overcome by desire, but shame before Laura—his ideal vision of Laura—makes love retreat from its attack on his mind.

      Petrarch's Rime sparse was published after his death in 1374. There have been many Petrarch translations throughout the whole history of English literature, including that by Anthony Mortimer in Petrarch: Selected Poems from 1977.

      Author Biography

      Petrarch's family belonged to the aristocracy of the city of Florence, but they were exiled by civil strife there. He was born on July 20, 1304, in Arezzo. His given name was Francesco Petrarca, but he is known by convention in English as Petrarch. He trained to be a lawyer, but when his father died

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