Their courtship was the start Of one of the worlds most famous romances. ... In Pisa and Florence they had a son "Pen" Browning in 1849, the same year his collected poems were published. Elizabeth inspired Brownings collection of poems Men and Women in (1855), which he dedicated to her. ... Robert Browning did not mostly become famous until after his wife died. ...
Francesco Petrarch's poetry had a great effect on the poems of later poets such as Shakespeare and Chaucer. His works were considered to be the first "modern" poems and the inventor of the sonnet, writing over 300 sonnets. ... He enjoyed the decedent life as an aristocrat at Avignon, and there on Good Friday 1327 he saw for the first time Laura, the lady who was to be the inspiration and subject of his most famous works. ... Here Petrarch found the peace and the inspiration that produced some of his best poems. ... He wrote a series of poems titled "Poems after Laura's death." ...
However Browning's characters are not famous personages but minor players. ... Therefore from now on his poems would be "dramatic in principle-. Two poems that Browning published soon after are even more fully dramatic. These poems Johannes Agricola and Porphyria's Lover, are objective studies in morbid psychology. ... We soon deduce even without the 1842 title Madhouse Cells that the speaker in the poem is insane. ...
Many historians consider him the "modern man" because of his innovative poems focusing on individuality. ... Although Petrach is well known, today, for his poetry, he is also famous for his contribution to the humanist literary and cultural movement of the 14th and 15th centuries. ... He was responsible for discovering several texts and letters by the Roman author Cicero, who's Brutus became one of the most famous books of the time. ...
One of the most famous paintings of mythology during the Renaissance, is the "Birth of Venus" by Sandro Botticelli. ... He was also inspired by a contemporary neopatonic poem honoring Aphrodite/Venus, as goddess of divine love. ... One of the most famous paintings in all of historyy was created during this period: the portrait of Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, also known as La Gioconda, the wife of Francesco del Giocondo. ... Most famous of all, Mona Lisa's mouth and eyes were delicately blurred creating the mystery smile, both melancholic and mocking. ... The two greatest and most f...
By the 15th century famous libraries, that are still in existence today, had been established. ... Petrarch expected to achieve great fame from his epic biographical poem Africa, which was based on the life of Scipio Africanus who, to Petrarch, embodies the valiant and pious virtues of the ancient Romans. ...
