humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare

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PETER NOCKOLDS wrote:
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<the sight of a woman called "Laura" in the church of Sainte-Claire
d'Avignon awoke in Petrarch a lasting passion, celebrated in
the Rime sparse ("Scattered rhymes"). Later, Renaissance poets
who copied Petrarch's style named this collection of 366 poems
Il Canzoniere ("Song Book"). Laura may have been Laura de Noves,
the wife of Count Hugues de Sade (ancestor of Marquis de Sade).
While it is possible she was an idealized or pseudonymous character
- particularly since the name "Laura" has a linguistic connection
to the poetic "laurels" Petrarch coveted - Petrarch himself always
denied it. Her realistic presentation in his poems contrasts with
the clich=E9s of troubadours & courtly love. Her presence causes
him unspeakable joy, but his unrequited love creates unendurable
desires. There is little definite information in Petrarch's work
concerning Laura, except that she is lovely to look at,
fair-haired, with a modest, dignified bearing.>>
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http://www.library.otago.ac.nz/exhibitions/poet_laureate/pl_prelaurea...
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The Italian poet Petrarch (1304-74) was so well known for his verse
that he received two invitations to be crowned poet laureate
on the same day, 8 April, 1341: one from Paris University; the other
from the Roman Senate. He opted for a celebration at the Senate.
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April 8 1341 =3D Easter Day, hence April 6 1341 =3D Good Friday
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14 years prior : first sees Laura
7 years after : Laura dies
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http://petrarch.petersadlon.com/laura.html
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<For her he perfected the sonnet & wrote the Canzoniere.
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Who Laura was and even if she really existed is a bit of a mystery.
It has often been believed that the name "Laura" was a play on
the name "laurel" the leaves which Petrarch was honoured
with for being the poet laureate.
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However, there is a lot of evidence to show that Laura really did
exist & that she was Laure de Noves. Born 6 years after Petrarch in
1310 in Avignon she was the daughter of Audibert de Noves (a Knight)
and wife to Hugues II de Sade (and possibly the ancestor of the
infamous Marquis de Sade). She married at the age of 15 (January
16th, 1325) and Petrarch saw her for the first time two years
later on April 6th (Good Friday) in 1327 at Easter mass
in the church of Sainte-Claire d'Avignon.
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Falling in love at first sight, Petrarch would be haunted
by her beauty for the rest of his life. Already being married
she would turn down all advanced he made toward her.
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She died at the age of 38 in the year 1348, April 6th, Good
Friday, exactly 21 years to the very hour that Petrarch first
saw her (as Petrarch noted in his copy of a work by Virgil).
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Several years after her death, Maurice Sceve, a humanist,
visiting Avignon had her tomb opened and discovered inside
a lead box. Inside was a medal representing a woman ripping
at her heart, and under that, a sonnet by Petrarch.
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Although [Petrarch] wrote the Canzoniere, a series of poems
mostly about Laura and his love for her, she is absent from
even being mentioned in his letters except for a few very
rare cases where he talks about a past love he once had
(letter to Posterity) and once where he responds to an
accusation that she is not real (Familiares II, IX)>>
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April 6, 1327, Petrarch first sets eyes on Laura
April 8, 1341, Petrarch receives Easter Laurels
April 6, 1348, Petrarch's Laura, dies of plague
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April 6, 1483, RAPHAEL born/christened?
April 6, 1520, RAPHAEL dies on his 37th birthday.
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April 6, 1528, DURER dies in N=FCrnberg
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=2E April 6th Monday before Palm S.
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=2E610 : night the Koran descended to Earth
1584 : Bridget Vere's born
1992 : Isaac AsimoV dies
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April 6, 1584, CARAVAGGIO apprenticed to painter Simone Peterzano
April 6, 1584, BRIDGET VERE born [Monday before Palm S.]
April 6, 1588, CARAVAGGIO ends apprenticeship to Peterzano
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=2E Measure for Measure Act 3, Scene 2
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LUCIO: Does BRIDGET paint still, Pompey, ha?
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=2E April 6
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=2E648 -BC- Earliest total solar eclipse; chronicled by Greeks
=2E. 6 -BC- Historical birth of Jesus Christ?
=2E610 night the Koran descended to Earth [Monday before Palm S.]
1199 Richard I, the Lion-hearted, dies
1327 Petrarch first sets eyes on Laura [Monday after Palm S.]
1348 Italian poet Petrarch's Laura, dies of plague
1483 Italian Raphael, [Raffaello Sanzio], born/christened?
1520 Italian Raphael, dies on his 37th birthday [Good Friday]
1528 German painter Albrecht Durer dies [Monday after Palm S.]
1580 6+ Kent earthquake badly damaged St Paul's in London

"to cassay the earthcrust at all of hours"

1584 Caravaggio apprenticed to Simone Peterzano of Milan
1584 Bridget de Vere's born. [Monday before Palm S.]
1588 Caravaggio ends apprenticeship to Simone Peterzano

1590 Francis Walsingham, English secretary of state, dies
1614 El Greco (Domeniko Theotokopoulos) dies
1722 Adm. Roggeveen discovers EASTER ISLAND on day before EASTER
1789 GEORGE WASHINGTON elected President [Monday after Palm S.]
1826 Gustave *MOREAU* born.
1830 Mormons Founders Day
1843 Wordsworth as Poet Laureate
1874 Harry Houdini born [Monday after EASTER]
1992 Isaac Asimov dies [Monday before Palm S.]
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Moreau
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<was a French Symbolist painter. He was born and died in Paris.

*MOREAU's* main focus was the illustration of biblical and
mythological figures. As a painter of literary ideas rather than
visual images, he appealed to the imaginations of some Symbolist
writers and artists, who saw him as a precursor to their movement.

His father, Louis Jean Marie *MOREAU*, was an architect, who
recognized his talent. His mother was Adele Pauline des Moutiers.
*MOREAU* studied under Fran=E7ois-=C9douard Picot and Th=E9odore Chass=E9ria=
u,
with whom he may have become lovers[citation needed]; *MOREAU* also
carried on a deeply personal 25-year relationship, possibly romantic,
with Adelaide-Alexandrine Dureux, a woman whom he drew several times.
His first painting was a Piet=E0 which is now located in the cathedral
at Angoul=EAme. He showed A Scene from the Song of Songs and
The Death of Darius in the Salon of 1853. In 1853 he contributed
Athenians with the Minotaur and Moses Putting Off his Sandals within
Sight of the Promised Land to the Great Exhibition.

Oedipus and the Sphinx, one of his first symbolist paintings, was
exhibited at the Salon of 1864. Over his lifetime, he produced over
8,000 paintings, watercolors and drawings, many of which are on
display in Paris' Mus=E9e national Gustave *MOREAU* at 14, rue de la
Rochefoucauld (IXe arrondissement). The museum is in his former
workshop, and was opened to the public in 1903.

He had become a professor at Paris' =C9cole des Beaux-Arts in 1891
and had counted among his many students the fauvist painters,
Henri Matisse and Georges Rouault.

*MOREAU* is buried in Paris' Cimeti=E8re de Montmartre.

In Alan Moore's graphic novel, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen,
it is implied that he was a nephew of Doctor *MOREAU*, and
he based a few of his paintings on the Doctor's creations.>>
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April 6, 1826 Gustave *MOREAU* born.
April 6, 1830 Mormons Founders Day
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___ *MOREAU* : *BLACK HORSE* (French)
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INVENTING MORMONISM: TRADITION AND THE HISTORICAL RECORD
http://www.xmission.com/~research/about/inven2.htm
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<known them since 1820 and later recalled that the family followed the
money-digging business "until the latter part of the season of 1827."
That June, Joseph Smith, Sr., told Chase a remarkable story, whose
beginnings went back more than three years:
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"That some years ago, a spirit had appeared to Joseph his son, in a
vision, and informed him that in a certain place there was a record on
plates of gold, and that he was the person that must obtain them, and
this he must do in the following manner: On the 22d of September, he
must repair to the place where was deposited this manuscript, dressed
in black clothes, and riding a *BLACK HORSE* with a switch tail, and
demand the book in a certain name, and after obtaining it, he must go
directly away, and neither lay it down nor look behind him. They
accordingly fitted out Joseph with a suit of black clothes and
borrowed a *BLACK HORSE*.">>
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___ *MOREAU* : *BLACK HORSE* (French)
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REVElation 6:5 And when he had opened the third seal,
I heard the third beast say, Come and see.
And I beheld, and lo a *BLACK HORSE* ;
and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
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Edward de Vere: born on 12 Apr, 1550, at Castle Hedingham in Essex.
Son of John De Vere, 16=BA Earl of Oxford, and his second wife,
Margery Golding. Margery, Oxford's mother, remarried to
Charles *TYRRELL* by 1566. Oxford was on friendly
terms with *TYRRELL* , as revealed by Tyrrell's will.
Oxford had given him a *BLACK HORSE* , and in his
will *TYRRELL* granted him the return of his horse.>>

http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/EdwardDeVere(17EOxford).htm
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=2E *REID* Rune number: 5 Colour: *BLACK* Sound: R
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<< *REID* is a symbol of a journey on *HORSEBACK*
which in turn is an image for a ride into the underworld.
It is a universal technique for shamans entering
to world of the dead to ride on an animal.
Odin rode Sleipnir, his eight-legged HORSE - which can be likened
to *FOUR men carrying a coffin* . The rune is used in invoking the
dead and is also linked with the CHARIOT god, Thor. The rune is
a symbol of change in the self, new ideas, new ways of life.
In all religions death is a symbol of coming renewal.>>
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=2E Sleipnir: *FOUR men carrying a coffin*
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=2E Fortinbras: *Let foure Captaines*
=2E *Beare Hamlet like a souldier to the stage*
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Hamlet/Oxford/Shakespeare's tomb in Westminster:
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http://www.shakespeares-sonnets.com/Images/vere01.JPG
http://www.westminster-abbey.org/search/12203?query=3Dvere&x=3D10&y=3D14
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Sir *FRANCIS* Vere (1560-1609)
& his brother *HORACE* (1565-1635) are buried
in the chapel of *St John the Evangelist* in the Abbey.
Francis has a large monument of alabaster and black marble
showing him lying on a carved rush mattress in civilian
dress under a slab on which is laid out his suit of armour.
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The slab [i.e., *DECK* ]is supported on the shoulders of
four life-sized knights in armour who kneel at each corner.
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=2E Hamlet (Quarto 2, 1604-5) Act 1 Scene 1
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*FRANCISCO* : stand ho, who is there?
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*HORATIO* : Friends to this ground.
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Richard the Third (Quarto 1, 1597) Act 4, Scene 2
http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Annex/Texts/R3/Q1/Scene/4.3
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Enter *SIR FRANCIS TIRRELL*
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Tyr. : The tyrranous and bloudie deed is done,
The most arch-act of pitteous massacre,
That euer yet this land was guiltie of,
Dighton and Forrest whom I did suborne,
To do this ruthles peece of butcherie,
Although they were flesht villains, bloudie dogs,
Melting with tendernes and kind compassion,
Wept like two children in their deaths sad stories:
Lo thus quoth Dighton laie those tender babes,
Thus thus quoth Forrest girdling on another,
Within their innocent alablaster armes,
Their lips were foure red Roses on a stalke,
Which in their summer beautie kist each other,
A booke of praiers on their pillow laie,
Which once quoth Forrest almost changd my mind,
But ^o the Diuell their the villaine stopt,
Whilst Dighton thus told on we smothered
The most replenished sweet worke of nature,
That from the prime creation euer he framed,
Thus both are gone with conscience and remorse,
They could not speake and so I left them both,
To bring this tidings to the bloudie king.
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Enter Ki. Richard.
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And HERE HE COMES, all haile my soueraigne leige.
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King. : Kind Tirrell am I happie in thy newes.
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Tyr. : If to haue done the thing you giue in charge,
Beget your happinesse, be happie then
For it is done my Lord.
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King. : But didst thou see them dead?
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Tir. : I did my Lord.
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King. : And buried gentle Tirrell?
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Tir.: The Chaplaine of the tower hath buried them,
But how or in what place I do not know.
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Tir. : Come to me Tirrel soone at after supper,
And thou shalt tell the processe of their death,
Meane time but thinke how I may do thee good.
And be inheritor of thy desire,
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Exit Tirrel.
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Art Neuendorffer