Crossword-Solution: PETRARCH 8 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

Only the Doric little Morgue! The dead-house where you show your drowned: Petrarch’s Vaucluse makes proud the Sorgue, Your Morgue has made the Seine renowned.

Miss Matty read it “Herod Petrarch of Etruria,” and was just as well pleased as if she had been right.

And this serious person, though no minor wit, left the poetry of his epitaph unto others; either unwilling to commend himself, or to be judged by a distich, and perhaps considering how unhappy great poets have been in versifying their own epitaphs; wherein Petrarch, Dante, and Ariosto, have so unhappily failed, that if their tombs should outlast their works, posterity would find so little of Apollo on them as to mistake them for Ciceronian poets.

With equal zeal, but with less power, Petrarch, in the fourteenth century, repeated the same complaints.

The eloquent Petrarch, 151 whose fancy revived the visionary glories of the Capitol, deplores and upbraids the ignominious flight of the Bohemian; and even his contemporaries could observe, that the sole exercise of his authority was in the lucrative sale of privileges and titles.