Donne and Petrarch

Question 1

Generalization of Western Europe

Answer 1

1. Birth: Ancients (Greeks and Romans)
2. Dark Ages
3. Rebirth: Renaissance, c. 1500 AD England believed they had a rebirth, came up with medieval (between the ages)

Question 2

c. 1500 AD England

Answer 2

west engaged the east for silk and spices, brought over eastern literature (Greek and Roman kept by Eastern people, Arabs)

Question 3

Humanists

Answer 3

people writing c. 1500 AD, thought culture would be better if they embraced Greek and Roman literature

Question 4

Petrarch was the first

Answer 4

Humanist, italian, a Priest

Question 5

Francesco Petrarca

Answer 5

b. 1304 AD
met “Laura” April 6th, 1327; pursed and was rejected and suffered
d. 1374

Question 6

Laura

Answer 6

did not exist, was a metaphor as an object of desire

Question 7

Petrarchism

Answer 7

Laura is at the bottom of the ladder, God is at the top. suffering is good, your soul will rise and you will turn away from the physical and go toward the divine; had to love a physical object (Laura) to serve as a template for the nonphysical God

Question 8

Petrarch wrote his poems

Answer 8

c. 1350 AD

Question 9

John Donne

Answer 9

b. 1572 AD in London as a Catholic
d. 1631 AD

Question 10

Donne was born a

Answer 10

Catholic, very dangerous

Question 11

1584

Answer 11

Donne went to Oxford

Question 12

1591

Answer 12

Donne went to Law School for the fun and to work at court for the King

Question 13

1601

Answer 13

Donne married Anne More, More’s father gets Donne fired from court because he is middle class and Anne was noble

Question 14

1615

Answer 14

Donne gets a job as a Protestant priest

Question 15

Donne wrote his poems

Answer 15

c. 1600 AD