Collatio laureationis

By Francesco Petrarch

Collatio edita per clarissimum poetam Franciscum Petrarcam florentinum Rome in Capitolio, tempore laureationis sue.

• Language: Lingua latīna
• Publisher: epf
• Release date: Jun 4, 2020
• ISBN: 9788835841470

Francesco Petrarch

Born in Italy in 1304, Francesco Petrarch moved with his family to Provence. Petrarch was smitten by the sight of a young woman named Laura. She did not return his love, but it stayed with Petrarch even after Laura’s early death. Laura inspired the 366 poems that make up his Canzoniere, translated here as ‘Scattered Rhymes’. Petrarch lived till 1374, and was writing and revising his sonnets into his last years.

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Sed me Parnasi deserta per ardua dulcis

raptat amor,

Georgicorum tertio.

Hodierno die, magnifici ac venerabiles viri, poetico michi more procedendum est; et idcirco propositionem meam non aliunde quam ex poeticis scripturis elicui. [2] Insuper, et ob eandem causam, – resecatis ad presens distinctionibus illis minutissimis quibus in theologicis declamationibus uti solent, ac favore divini nominis invocato, quem ut obtinere merear salutationem illam gloriose Virginis in hoc quamvis exoptato breviloquio pretereundum esse non arbitror –, reliqua quam brevissimis absolvam. [3] Ave, Maria etc.

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Sed me Parnasi deserta per ardua dulcis

raptat amor.

Verba hec ab illustrissimo et omnium maximo poeta, Georgicorum tertio, scripta sunt; quorum prima pars indicat propositi mei non facilem laborem, secunda subiungit non mediocrem studiose mentis ardorem. [2] Primum ex eo apparet quod « me Parnasi deserta per ardua », ubi notare oportet pro « Parnasi » pro « ardua », pro « deserta ». [3] Secundum ex eo quod « dulcis raptat amor », ubi attendendum pro « amor » et pro « dulcis amor » et pro « rapere valens amor ». [4]