/lit/ - Literature

>philosophy

>>6923365
Petrarch is the man largely responsible for starting the Italian Renaissance.

>>6862914

>>6745078
Here's me when I dressed up as the tin man from the Wizard of Oz for Halloween one year! I didn't have any metal (sold it all as scrap to afford more reefer!) so I improvised like the genius I am and used my curtains! HAHA!

>>6315481
Mississippi, USA.

She ruled in beauty o'er this heart of mine,
A noble lady in a humble home,
And now her time for heavenly bliss has come,
'Tis I am mortal proved, and she divine.
The soul that all its blessings must resign,
And love whose light no more on earth finds room,
Might rend the rocks with pity for their doom,
Yet none their sorrows can in words enshrine;
They weep within my heart; and ears are deaf
Save mine alone, and I am crushed with care,
And naught remains to me save mournful breath.
Assuredly but dust and shade we are,
Assuredly desire is blind and brief,
Assuredly its hope but ends in death.

dis is toppest of the top
I am impressed
this guy invented the sonnet and tbh even in translation I reckon this is better than any of Shakespeare's sonnets; and I am a native of England.

>>5338047

Because Plebtrarch was steamrollin dat ass on the Italian tip

>>5171856
>mfw reading this

2 inches; erected :(