It pricks my conscience that I should be responsible in great part for fostering all these forms of literary madness, and should have misled others through myexample,---by no means the least of offences. I fear lest those laurel leaves, which in my eagerness I tore prematurely from the branch, may in a way be answerablefor the trouble. While, as many believe, they have been the means of bringing true dreams to me, they have caused in others a multitude of delusive visions, whichwere allowed to escape while all the world was asleep, through the ivory gates, into the autumnal air.

Call for Papers / Submitted Papers

I have found it somewhat more difficult to find papers on Petrarch on the Web then I first expected. Therefore this call for papers is rather unique as it will not be presented at a conference, and it will not be published in a journal. Instead it will be published on this website where hundreds of students come each day during the school year to research Petrarch. If anyone has any such papers please do send them to me and I will post them.

A list of known conferences regarding Petrarch is available for those looking to submit papers to journals or conferences.

Below are the papers which I have already collected. Where I was unable to get the author's permission to duplicate the paper on this site, only a link to their site is included.
You may need to download Adobe Acrobat Reader to read the PDF files. In all likelyhood this is already on your system.

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Papers on Humanism		Author's Website
	Humanism	by Liana Cheney
Papers on Petrarch		Author's Website
	Petrarch at the Crossroads	by Nicholas Mann
	Nationalism in 'Petrarch's Last Controversy'	by Grover Furr
	Petrarch's Historicism and the Purpose of Philosophy	by Brian W. Ogilvie
	Petrarch's and Laura's Love Dynamics	by Sergio Rinaldi
	Petrarch: The German Connection	by Frank L. Borchardt
	Petrarch’s Secret Inner Struggle	by Jerome Veith
	Petrarch and Dulcinea in Don Quijote	by Lisa Rabin
	I go thinking, I'vo pensando and Petrarch's paths of desire	by Holly Barbaccia
	Sidney and Petrarch; Or, The Contemplation of Love	by Abraham Avendaño Martínez
	Petrarch's Apes: Originality, Plagiarism....	by Penelope Alfrey
	English court poets and Petrarchism	by Matthew Griffiths
	Petrarch and Abelard: A Comparison	by Thomas A. Donaldson
	Musical Settings of Petrarch's "Mia benigna fortuna"	by Joti Rockwell
	Petrarch: Books and the Life of the Mind	by Leigh Husband Kimmel
	From Translation to Imitation	by Richard Jackson
	(French) De l’humaniste savant à l’amoureux de Laura	by Angelica Rieger
The following papers are also available, however, they were found online and use to be listed above, but I was never able to contact the author to get permission to publish the paper on my website and the original online paper is now no longer available. I still have copies of these papers, but no permission to publish them here. If you would like one of the following papers, please contact me and I can email you the paper in question.
Emailed papers
	Petrarch's Invective contra medicum	by Nancy Struever