the ghazals of hafiz and the canzoniere of petrarch (1304–1374) have at least three common characteristics: (a) from the qualitative point of view: each of these two works is at the top of the medieval love poetry: one in the persian literature, and the other in the european literature; (b) from the chronological point of view: these two books of poetry have been written during the fourteen the...

This article examines melancholia and its stylistic rendering in three of Marguerite de Navarre’s Chansons spirituelles that do not deal with bereavement, namely Songs 29, 45, especially 34. The Queen uses various medical, philosophical, literary sources to describe melancholy, although she never quotes Aristotle or humoral medicine. same applies borrowings from the Imitation Christ, which enab...

Francis Petrarch (or, in Italian, Francesco Petrarca) stands as one of the first modern thinkers to explore the connections between the humanities and medicine. Arguing in favor of the humanities against medicine, Petrarch expresses his negative attitude toward medicine in a number of his works. First, his voluminous correspondence reveals in no uncertain terms Petrarch's distrust of doctors an...

PETRARCH 2 is the fourth generation of a series of Event-Data coders stemming from research by Phillip Schrodt1. Each iteration has brought new functionality and usability 2, and this is no exception. Petrarch 2 takes much of the power of the original Petrarch’s dictionaries and redirects it into a faster and smarter core logic. Earlier iterations handled sentences largely as a list of words, i...