Friday, 10 September 2010

petrarch images

Here Laura's life is compressed into the twenty-one years between her first appearance to Petrarch and the day of her death; her birth, her childhood, her life as a wife and mother, are excluded; it is the symmetry in the month and the day and the time of day that matters; the fact that, as we know, Laura bore .... Góngora drives his images and figures to such extremes that they appear to implode as they unfold; in so doing, he stretched the Spanish language close to its breaking point.

Portrait of Petrarch Giclee
Portrait of Petrarch Giclee

Picture of Francesco Petrarch,
Picture of Francesco Petrarch,

Petrarch: Father of the
Petrarch: Father of the

Petrarch
Petrarch

Petrarch Image
Petrarch Image

Francesco Petrarch - Father of
Francesco Petrarch - Father of

Petrarch: A White Deer (Una candida cerva) . http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/ White Fallow Deer (Dama dama), doe, on a misty morning, near Argonne National Laboratory, Westmont, Illinois: photo by...
TOM CLARK: Petrarch: A White Deer (Una candida cerva)

I believe Petrarch would feel awkward upon meeting Laura for the first time because his ideas of her are probably unrealistic. He loves the perfect image that he has branded her with, but does not realize that she has flaws like...
petrarch images

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