HIS109Y1 Lecture Notes - Coluccio Salutati, Petrarch, Courtly Love
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Was a city-state & was therefore seeing itself as a relatively coherent place, in which dominant mercantile class didn"t have to compete w/ large monarchy. & gave us advice about how to live on earth (help you sleep soundly, make ethical decisions) Poems are about how he felt when he was in love & why his feelings mattered, not about. Began to write letters (had to keep copies of letters b/c it took so long for it to reach ppl. He was speaking to political & economic leaders about morals & reasonable assessment. Was invited to rome & paris to be first poet laureate, chose rome b/c paris represented medieval, scholastic thought which he rejected, rome represented his future (rome of cicero & ancient world) Said: all we can control is the things we can control (was beginning to define modern personality) Never returned to fl. , but his disciples (groupies people who wrote him letters for advice) did:
