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"When I turn again to gaze on the years that have scattered all my thoughts in passing and doused the fire where I, freezing, burned, and ended my repose full of torments,"
broke my faith in loving illusions, and made two separate parts of all my good, one in heaven, the other left in earth, and lost all the profits of my wealth,
I rouse myself, and find myself so naked, that I envy every extreme fate: I have such grief and fear for myself.
O my star, O Fortune, O fate, O Death, O day always sweet and cruel to me, to what an evil state you have brought me!"
-translated by A.S. Kline
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Another one of his poems "Italia mia" was a political poem about moral principles that described Italy and its suffering people at the time, the poem was addressed to the Italian lords hiring German mercenaries for wars.
Petrarch's interest in poetry was something that was always apart of him, and writing became even more encouraged and influenced by a woman named Laura deNoves.
The influence created by Petrarch's numerous and famous poetry, brought upon the introductory exploration of humanism.
Emotional expressions of love and pain in Petrarch's poetry resonated with the people who read them and encouraged the citizens to become more thoughtful of their feelings. As well, enabled them to explore what those feelings meant concerning humanity.
Petrarch was not a musician but the style of his poetry, his italian sonnet's, had musical qualities. Although his sonnet's did not influence music in his time, it is important to note that they would later be of great influence in sixteenth century Europe when a book of his writings, Canzoniere, is republished.
His poetry had rhythm and form that illustrated a variety of sentiments and moods. Moods of love, confusion, hopelessness, self-evaluation, and longing. His writings were so unlike what other writings in his time offered, which were of God, church, and sins. This is why his poetry appealed to the people, in turn stimulating people to read and even write their own expressionistic writings.
Liszt's was a Hungarian composer of the nineteenth century, he was inspired by Petrarch's poems and their deep meanings. Liszt's adapted Sonnets 47, 104, and 123 which are all found in Canzoniere, into solo piano pieces. Content wise the book is divided into two parts. Part one being "Laura's life" where sonnets 47, and 104 are found. The other "Laura's death" were sonnet 123 was written. These three pieces are often times preformed together.
Sonnet 104 is the most popular of the sonnets, in it Petrarch ponders about the confused state of his passionate unrequited love. He expresses a wide range of emotional contradicting shifts of imprisonment and freedom and burning love and icy solitude. The song itself is a song expressing his "highs and lows" so the melody is dramatic and unexpected varying levels of intensity and calmness.
It is complicated to preform these pieces since the pieces are not focused on speed but instead fluidity.
Petrarch was an extremely influential person to his time period and even a long time after. His poetry had a great impact on human expression and encouraged people to step out of their Middle Aged minds.
Topics like peace and war, love and hate, morals and justice were ideas talked about and brought up more than ever before because of Petrarch's act of publicly expressing himself through his writing.
Petrarch encouraged people to observe their surroundings and question the meaning or feelings presented to them, which led to the beginnings of Humanism.