Friday, March 8, 2013

Who is Petrarch?


Here is a fun introduction to who Petrarch is... or at least, who people think he is. This would be a lot more fun if you could see their faces and reactions to questions. Perhaps I'll redo it when I have a camera available and working to make it better quality. But it's a bit of a promotion for our blog to discover who this guy actually is...seeing how wrong other people are.

4 comments:

  1. I loved this! It was funny, and informational, as well as introductory. I think it would be fun to record it with video, but not having it leaves a lot to the mysterious side of things, which is fitting for your idea.

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  2. As a fan of Dante Alighieri, I find this offensive.

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  3. Haha gotta love the 'Who wrote Dante's Inferno?' I also found the Wikipedia page pretty funny in its remarks about Petrarch and Dante. "Petrarch's is a world apart from Dante and his Divina Commedia." In any case, this was a fun approach to Petrarch. I knew only about Petrarchan sonnets, but this was enough to make me go find out more about him! Thanks for sharing!

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  4. If it helps, my roommate does actually know who wrote Dante's Inferno. But it's funny so I kept it!

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