The 14th century Italian poet Francesco Petrarch left hundreds of letters detailing his life and thoughts. Now scientists plan to dig up his remains to find out more about his flesh and bones.

Franz Liszt had his share of love affairs, and also his share of heartbreaks. Perhaps that's what drew him to the work of Petrarch, and his many sonnets about love. From a recital at the 2006 Aspen ...

The charm of leisure must not be an indolent vacancy of mind, but the investigation or discovery of truth, that thus every man may make solid attainments without grudging that others do the same. And, ...

IT is a long time since Lessing refuted the forgotten critic who maintained that good poetry must furnish good subjects for illustration; and the principle laid down in the Laocoön, to the effect that ...

The Vienna and Berlin philharmonics during the Third Reich: “One morning in January 1946, an old man living in southeast London received a letter from the chairman of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra ...

Petrarch in Global Translation: A Genealogy of Western Love (PGT) is a collaborative humanities project across languages and national borders that is investigating the foundational conception of ...