Publius Aelius Hadrianus, known to history as Hadrian, was born on 24 January 76 and died on 10 July 138. He is remembered above all as Roman emperor from 117 to 138, builder of a great frontier wall in Britain, patron of Greek culture, architect of the Pantheon’s reconstruction, traveler across nearly every major province of the empire, and the grieving lover who raised the drowned Antinous into divine memory. Yet h…
“My little soul, wandering, charming, guest and companion of the body, into what places will you now go?”
Neighbourhood:
Ancient & Classical Poets, Classical & Ancient Poets, Death & Mortality, LGBTQ+ Poets, Mystical & Spiritual Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Spirituality, Longing
Francesco Petrarca, known in English as Petrarch, was born on 20 July 1304 in Arezzo, Tuscany, and died during the night of 18–19 July 1374 at Arquà, near Padua. He stands among the decisive makers of European literary culture: a poet whose Italian lyrics established an enduring language of desire; a Latin author who sought to restore the prestige and moral seriousness of classical letters; a tireless correspondent a…
“I seem to you to have written everything, or at least a great deal; to myself I appear to have produced almost nothing.”
Neighbourhood:
Italian Renaissance Poets, Love Poets, Medieval Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Tenderness, Sensuality
