FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
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Friendship
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The religion
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The love
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The central theme in the Canzoniere is Petrarch’s courtly love love for Laura, with whom he reportedly fell in love at first sight on 6 April 1327 and who died on that date in 1348.
Detailed explanation-2: -Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Petrarchan sonnet characteristically treats its theme in two parts. The first eight lines, the octave, state a problem, ask a question, or express an emotional tension. The last six lines, the sestet, resolve the problem, answer the question, or relieve the tension.
Detailed explanation-4: -Petrarch’s Songbook Jun 10 2022 “Petrarch’s Canzoniere is a body of 366 poems, mostly sonnets but including forms such as madrigals and canzoni. These wonderful poems marked the intellectual and cultural divide between the Middle Ages and the Italian Renaissance.
Detailed explanation-5: -Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374), the Italian humanist scholar who rediscovered the works of the Roman thinker Cicero, is perhaps best known for a collection of 366 poems called Il Canzoniere (“Song Book”).