Wednesday, October 14· 7pm
Unrequited Love seminar: Petrarch, Canzoniere
The second seminar in our “Unrequited Love” series spans the late Middle Ages to the early Romantic era, focusing on works in which male narrators’s furious—and unreturned—passions lead them to acts of creation or destruction. Petrarch in his canzoniere, taking a leaf from the Roman poets, charts the course of his
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hopeless idolization of “Laura” both during and after her lifetime, solidifying many of the tropes of the genre for centuries to come; side-by-side with Petrarch we will read some of Shakespeare’s “Dark Lady” sonnets.