Humanism
Francesco Petrarca was born in
Arezzo, Italy 1304 and died in 1374. He was interested in classical writing, and wrote different kinds of work in Latin. One of his works is, the poem that he wrote to Laura. This poem shows a lot of humanism because the author has connection with nature and looks most of the time for the perfect form of a woman, but this piece of art did not have a real person.
First, the time period is XVI century and this poem has connection to the Roman heritage and the human being, also the poem has love and beauty. For example, in this stanza Francesco is expressing his emotions for this unreal woman, “calling out the name of my lady.” The readers can figure out that Laura is not a real person, but he looked for her no matter what. This kind of romanticism has connection with the creation of an unnatural person. The higher admiration of the author is looking for the impossible, and for the perfect love.
Moreover, when he said, “Bless be the day, and the month, and the year”, Francesco gives in this stanza traditional humanism because he show his poetry and philosophy, and he continues to have connection with nature, he compared his idyllic love with nature and connected himself with creation (God). In this stanza “where I acquire fame, and my thought, that are only of her”, this verse shows to the readers that the author had celebrated himself, and gives us his natural philosophy about nature and the readers can see that the author had individual emotion, and in addition, he talked about himself because we do not see any other person.
Finally, Francesco Patrarca made emphasis on the human body, and describes the woman’s body as perfect love, “as it did the angelic breast: serene, and sacred air, where Love pierced my heart with eyes of beauty”, here, the human body can see as classical resources, beauty and love. Also, the body perfection shows us in this description because the author wants to give us the perfect idea of a woman’s body.
