EN 2250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Petrarch, Cultural Capital, Caesura
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Lived from the beginning to the middle of the 16th century. Lived entire life in service of the court. Entered university at age 12, graduated at age 16. Renaissance man - a man of many qualities. A man who can manage a sword in the defence of his king, be a listener more than a talker, is quick witted, athletic accomplishments, a warrior, lover, poet. Today we call that a renaissance man - wyatt gave rise to that. Did borrow many of his themes expression. Wrote a series of sonnets in a persona of a lover, who falls for a woman named. Stuff in the poems that did not happen to petrarch - cannot assume it"s him. She"s a married woman, her husband very much alive. Creative misery in this fiction of desire. Woman: concerned with appearances, being faithful, and the church (adultery being illegal) Laura: as virtuous as she is beautiful, but she is veiled all the time.
