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Arezzo
Arezzo (prov.) Toscana Parco 'Il Prato' |
Francesco PetrarcaPetrarchArezzo 1304 - Arquà 1374Italian scholar and poet in Renaissance Italy, who was one of the earliest humanists. His rediscovery of Cicero's letters is often credited with initiating the 14th-century Renaissance (Wikipedia) |
Alessandro Lazzerini
1928 |
Four metre tall, marble statue of Francesco Petrarca high atop a massive sculptural group, including a busy and eclectic collection of elements drawn from Petrarch's life and poetry.
 Overview of the right side. |
 Overview of the back side. |
 Front of the pedestal with inscription and coat-of-arms. |
 The group right on the front of the base portrays the sentiment of Peace: a mother pulls away her son from fraticidal warfare (on the shield is the text agitans discordia fratres, clinging to herself. |
 As an allusion to the Triumph of Fame, the main group on the back of the monument shows the poet's coronation with a laurel wreath by Senator Orso dell'Anguillara in 1341. The figures present at the ceremony show the various social classes. Among these are a warrior with the appearance of the Duke of the Abruzzi, a poet with that of Gabriele d'Annunzio and a female figure, where Lazzerini's wife was the model. |
 An image of a Virgin alludes to the Triumph of the Divinity. |
 A medallion with Petrarca's love, Laura de Noves (1310-1348), alludes to the Triumph of Love and Chastity. |
 The representation of the Capitoline Wolf alludes to the cult of classicism and Romanity. |
 Cupido, who wounded Petrarch with the arrow of love, crouches below the statue. |
An episode of the Canzoniere, Petrarch's collection of poems, is represented by the Roman sword sunk in a tangle of snakes, referring to 'Africa home from the Italian swords'.
A IL NOSTRA CAPO ROMA |
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