PETRARCH AND PROVENCE:
BETWEEN SECLUSION AND THE WORLD
NEH Summer Seminar
Avignon, France
June 30 - July 25, 2008
This seminar, sponsored by The National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar for Teachers (NEH), and under the direction of Ronald G. Witt, William B. Hamilton Professor of History, Duke University, will meet for four weeks seminar in Avignon to study on location a selection of Petrarch’s writings composed in Avignon and the Valley of the Vaucluse. The goal of the seminar is to explore the intimate tie between site and text so as to enhance appreciation of Petrarch’s writings and the emotional and intellectual complexity of the father of Italian humanism.