{"id":27319,"date":"2014-05-30T06:37:07","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T06:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/petrarch-kept-with-devotional-care-a-greek\/"},"modified":"2014-05-30T06:37:07","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T06:37:07","slug":"petrarch-kept-with-devotional-care-a-greek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/petrarch-kept-with-devotional-care-a-greek\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Petrarch kept, with devotional care, a Greek manuscript of Homer which he didn\u2019t know how to read. To the friend who sent it to him from Constantinople, he wrote: \u201cYour Homer lies mute by my side, while I am deaf by his, and often I have kissed him saying: \u201cGreat man, how I wish I could hear your words!\u201d At Petrarch\u2019s suggestion, and with the help of Boccaccio, their friend Leonzio Pilato, a Calabrian monk of Greek origin, translated the Odyssey and the Iliad into Latin, both very badly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/rhea137.tumblr.com\/\">rhea137<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Petrarch kept, with devotional care, a Greek manuscript of Homer which he didn\u2019t know how to read. To the friend who sent it to him from Constantinople, he wrote: \u201cYour Homer lies mute by my side, while I am deaf by his, and often I have kissed him saying: \u201cGreat man, how I wish I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-76D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}