Author: Francesco Petrarca

Cited by

• Salman Rushdie (1)
  • IN: The Enchantress of Florence (None) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Her way of moving was no mortal thing but of angelic form: and her speech rang higher than a mere human voice. A celestial spirit, a living sun was what I saw...
    FROM: Sonnet 90 (Erano i capei d'oro a l'aura sparsi), (1374), Poem, Italy
• Brandy Purdy (1)
  • IN: Two Empresses (2017) Historical Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.~~
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Italy
• Handel Richardson, Henry (1)
  • IN: Maurice Guest (1908) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: S'amor non è, che dunque è quel ch'io sento? Ma s'egli è amor, per Dio, che cosa è quale?
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Italy
• de Staël, Germaine (1)
  • IN: Corrine; or Italy (1833) Fiction, French
    EPIGRAPH: —"Udrallo il bel paese, Ch' Apennin parte, e 'l mar circonda e l'Alpe."
    FROM: O d' ardente vertute ornata et calda, (None), Poem, France