Petrarch and His World

UBC Continuing Studies
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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Course Description:

'' Petrarch is mostly known to the 21st century reader for the poems celebrating his long and hopeless fidelity to Laura, a married woman who many believed had been no more than a figment of the poet’s imagination. Yet Petrarch was also the first modern man, the father of humanism, the lover of the classics, a traveler, a mountain climber, a man of insatiable intellectual curiosity with opinions on everything: from music to medicine to gardening. In this course we look at Petrarch in the context of his time and the world he lived in, and familiarize ourselves with some of his poems and his extraordinary correspondence. ...''

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Phone:604-822-1444

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UBC Continuing Studies
410-5950 University Boulevard
Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z3
CANADA

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