Chivalry and Romantic Ideals

Petrarch’s Canzorniere
Marlon D. Nuevo, MAEd
SST-III, English
Task 5: Love is Everywhere

Being sensitive to others is one way

of showing love and concern. Whose
love story do you consider special
and worth emulating?
Task 5: Love is Everywhere

In 1912 Southampton, 17-year-

old first class passenger Rose
DeWitt Bukater, who is
engaged to be married against
her will, plans to jump off the
ship. Jack Dawson, a penniless
artist, convinces her not to.
This incident started their
friendship, which later on
develops into a love affair.
Task 5: Love is Everywhere

Danielle, the only daughter of a

deceased French nobleman, is
made a servant by her stepmother.
She also has two stepsisters, one
quiet kind but the other one really
terrible. Still, Danielle grows up to
be a happy and strong-willed young
lady., and one day her path crosses
that of a handsome Prince Henry,
who falls in love with her. Despite
some troubles, Danielle and the
Prince end up together with the help
of the nice Leonardo da Vinci.
Task 5: Love is Everywhere

Rebellious high school student

Landon Carter is threatened with
expulsion unless he performs in the
drama club’s spring musical. At this
function, he is forced to interact with
quiet Jamie Sullivan who has
helped him with his lines. During
the play. Jamie surprises Landon
and the entire audience with her
beauty and voice. While their
friendship and admiration for each
other grows deeper, Jamie’s cancer
gets worse.
Task 5: Love is Everywhere

Can you name other movies that speak

of great love?

Boys, how do you plan to win the heart

of your ladylove someday?

Girls, when a man courts you in the

future, how would you want him to do it?
Chivalry and Romantic Ideals
(Middle Ages, 1100-1500)

Dating as we currently know it is actually a

relatively new, 20th century concept that had
once been something much more private and
formal. Our dating — or “courting” — habits
have always changed with the times, but some
have lasted for centuries.
Chivalry and Romantic Ideals
(Middle Ages, 1100-1500)

Many women long for a chivalrous type of

guy who will open doors, pull out chairs, and let
her order first, much like the knights and
troubadours (traveling poets and musicians) of
medieval times. These men knew their lady’s
wants and desires always came first and
foremost in love; winning her heart was their
ultimate goal.
Chivalry and Romantic Ideals
(Middle Ages, 1100-1500)

Wealthy knights won a woman’s hand

through brave deeds, while the poets won them
over through their use of words and songs.
These ideas were inspired by “courtly love,”
which was a highly idealized and extravagant
forbidden affair (mostly among the noble class)
whose core beliefs were the superiority of the
lady, the instability of desire, and the ennobling
power of love.
Chivalry and Romantic Ideals
(Middle Ages, 1100-1500)

When one is in love, one has the

tendency to be biased?

Name an incident in which you did

something in the name of love.
Renaissance Period

Love has been around us from the very

beginning. In the 14th century, an Italian poet
named Francesco Petrarch celebrated his love
for his muse– Laura through a collection of
poems called “Canzoniere.” The English called
him the greatest Italian poet of 14th century by
setting a pattern of lyric poetry.
Renaissance Period

This was also the time when people were

starting to rekindle their relationship with God
and other men and women brought about by
the rediscovery of the classics. This period is
called the Rebirth of the Reinassance.
Petrarch’s Canzoniere

Petrarch’s Canzoniere is an innovative
collection of poems predominantly
celebrating his idealised love for Laura,
perhaps a literary invention rather than a real
person, whom Petrarch allegedly first saw, in
1327, in the Church of Sainte Claire in
Avignon. Mostly using the sonnet form the
poems were written in the Italian vernacular
rather than Latin, and Petrarch, like Dante,
exploited and extended the language to
convey a wider range of feeling and
Petrarch’s Canzoniere

The poems were written over a forty year

period, the earliest dating from shortly after 1327,
and the latest from around 1368, and were a major
influence on the poetry of the European
Renaissance, especially in France, Spain, and
England, where sonnet sequences were written
until well into the seventeenth century, the form
being revived and extended later by the English
19th century poets.
Francesco Petrarca
Francesco Petrarca, or Petrarch, was born in
Arezzo, Italy in 1304. A scholar, poet, diplomat, and
early humanist, his rediscovery of the ancient Roman
writers did much to fuel the 14th century
Renaissance. His use of the sonnet form, particularly
in the lyrics dedicated to his ideal love, Laura, was
imitated throughout Europe, and became a mark of
the civilised literary culture of his own and later
periods. Initially trained as a lawyer in the universities
of Montpellier and Bologna, his first extensive literary
work, an epic in Latin, celebrated the Roman general
Scipio Africanus.
Francesco Petrarca

Initially trained as a lawyer in the universities of

Montpellier and Bologna, his first extensive literary
work, an epic in Latin, celebrated the Roman general
Scipio Africanus. It was well received and in 1341 he
was crowned in Rome as the first poet laureate since
antiquity. He is particularly associated with Avignon,
where he lived for many years, later travelling widely
in Northern Italy, and living for a time in Venice. A
friend of Boccaccio, Petrarch died at his home in
Arqua, among the Eugenean hills near Padua, in
1374.
LAURA
Translated by Morris Bishop
What is the poem all about?

The poem is about his desire for Laura, and

he describes how highly he thinks ago. His
attraction an is mostly, if not solely, physical
because he does not actually know her. He
calls her divine and very beautiful.
Laura was a married woman who was the
object if Petrarch's affection. She was the
topic of many of his poems, although she did
not reciprocate his feelings.
Figurative language

•"She used to let her golden hair fly free“

Personification
•"For the wind to toy and tangle and
molest" More Personification
•"Her eyes were brighter than the radiant
west" Metaphor
•"I had love's tinder heaped within my
breast" Metaphor
Theme

Love can blind a person - Petrarch is madly in

love with Laura. He calls her "divine" and says,
"Her eyes were brighter than the radiant
west"(Petrarch 3).
The White Doe
Translated by Anna Maria Armi
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Translated by Anna Maria Armi
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Rhyme Scheme
Petrarchan vs Shakepearian
Rhyme Scheme
Petrarchan vs Shakepearian
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Petrarchan vs Shakepearian
Rhyme Scheme
Petrarchan vs Shakepearian
Rhyme Scheme
Petrarchan vs Shakepearian