https://crystal.castle.cc/tag/petrarch/ Recent content in Petrarch on adventures of an omnomnomnivore in NYC Hugo en-US Sat, 04 Sep 2010 07:15:31 -0400 https://crystal.castle.cc/2010/09/04/arqua-petrarca-love-wine-and-petrarch/ Sat, 04 Sep 2010 07:15:31 -0400 https://crystal.castle.cc/2010/09/04/arqua-petrarca-love-wine-and-petrarch/ <p><a href="https://crystal.castle.cc/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/img_5351.jpg"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" title="IMG_5351" src="https://crystal.castle.cc/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/img_5351.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" align="left" /></a><a href="https://crystal.castle.cc/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/img_5337.jpg"><img decoding="async" title="IMG_5337" src="https://crystal.castle.cc/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/img_5337.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" align="left" /></a><br /> <a href="https://crystal.castle.cc/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/img_5346.jpg"><img decoding="async" title="IMG_5346" src="https://crystal.castle.cc/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/img_5346.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" align="left" /></a><a href="https://crystal.castle.cc/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/img_5336.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" title="IMG_5336" src="https://crystal.castle.cc/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/img_5336.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" align="left" /></a></p> <p><em>Clockwise: the entrance to Petrarch&#8217;s home; 13th century Venetian school fresco inside the Santa Maria church; Petrarch&#8217;s tomb; pomegranates growing on a roadside tree</em></p> <p>Se ti agita sacro amore di Patria, t&#8217;inchina a queste mura ove spirò la grande anima il cantor dei Scipioni e di Laura. <em>If you are moved by the sacred love of country, bow down before this wall where a great soul, the singer of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa_(Petrarch)">Scipio</a> and of Laura passed away.</em><br /> -Inscription at the house of Petrarch</p>