Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta, by Francesco Petrarca

Lina Bolzoni, Professor of Italian Literature, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, and Global Distinguished Professor of Italian Studies, New York University 

Explore the ways poets and painters from Petrarch onward have competed to create portraits capable of revealing the hidden secrets of the heart.

My recitation 

My recitation

Reference:  Poetry and Portraits in the Renaissance.