The Petrarchan Grotto Home

Francesco Petrarch - Father of Humanism
Peter Sadlon - nobis maxime hoc placet
Petrarch at 700: An exhibition of books and manuscripts from the collections of Cornell University Library and the University of Pennsylvania Library
New for Petrarch"s 700th Birthday!
Petrarcha apud ripas Sorgae
Petrarch in Cyberspace

Texts
Italian

Latin

Biblioteca Italiana - Francisci Petrarchae Opera Omnia - Petrarch's complete works

Translations

SJ"s On Petrarch
The Canzoniere Complete - All 366 poems of the RVF, by Anthony Kline
Visions of Petrarch (RVF 323), by Edmund Spencer
Translations by Sir Thomas Wyatt
Ascent of Mount Ventoux
Against the Avignon Papacy
Preface to Familiari
Familiari - Selections and Bibliography
To Posterity

Manuscripts-Prints

Essays

Bibliotheca augustana
Petrarch in Music
Rome Reborn - Library of Congress web exhibit
I Trionfi di Petrarca - Studies, bibliographies, and texts

Laura

Biography

Biography, in English
Vita di Francesco Petrarca (Comune di Arquà Petrarca)
Francisci Petrarchae poetae clarissimi vita feliciter incipit. Auctoris incerti anno 1465 (pdf - Biblioteca dei Classici Italiani)
Vita Francisci Petrarchae Paulo Vergerio auctore. typis Pauli Frambotti, Patavii 1650 (pdf - Biblioteca dei Classici Italiani)
Books and Writers
The Poet"s villa at Arquà

Other Links

Romance Languages and Linguistics Italic and Pre-Latin

Víteliú

Latin

Latin Grammar

Generalia specificaque

Italo-Romance
Language and Linguistics

Accademia della Crusca
Carta dei Dialetti d"Italia
Italnet
Language and Dialect
Come si parlava a Torino
Judeo-Italian
Il Griko - The Greek dialects of Southern Italy
La lingua dei giovani - Centro di documentazione sulla lingua dei giovani, Università degli Studi di Padova

Judeo-Italian

Overview
Recent Stats
Giudaico-Romanesco
Elegia Giudeo-Italiana
Graphic drawings as signposts for easy spotting of prayers - a curious navigation aid found in a Judeo-Italian manuscript (MS London , BL Or. 2443) , by Nurit Pasternak (Hebrew University, Jerusalem), Gazette du livre médiéval, n° 39, automne 2001, pp. 10-20 (internet edition)

Italian Literature

Edizioni critiche
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
DANTE: Online Resources
Dante and Others (Anthony Kline)
Digital Dante Project
E-Texts of Dante"s Works
Decameron Web - A Growing Hypermedia Archive of Materials Dedicated to Boccaccio"s Masterpiece (Brown University)
Italian Poems of Immanuel ben Solomon
(Immanuel Romano, Manoello Giudeo),
ca. 1265-ca. 1330
> The Poetry of Manuello Romano (Guy Shaked)
Princeton Dante Project
Progetto Duecento
Ritmi delle Origini
Le vite, Giorgio Vasari

Gallo-Romance
French

Occitanic

The Provençal Cançonier

Prosody

Arnaut & Karkur"s Prosody

General Linguistics

Poetry by SJ

Pizmon `al David
The Descorts
Free Verse 1
On Petrarch (selected translations from the Canzoniere)

And Finally ...

Pax moxque ac valete, ut prosit.