The Renaissance is an age that gives the person freedom. His spiritual horizon becomes unreasonable and he discovers the great truth about himself and his existence that everything starts with man and ends with Man is the "secret key" to the world, the "backbone" for reforming thinking and changing spiritual attitudes. The "secret" universe of emotions becomes visible and tangible. Man has the inner freedom to open the soul's "secret" and pour out the fullness of feelings into the beautiful streams of poetic thought. The sonnet appears to be the most sophisticated artistic measure of human expression in the emotional tides of love. Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374) is the Renaissance poet and thinker who first manages to mirror the emotional content of his human personality in a mirrored form. Love is the most accurate equivalent of expression and manifestation of the personality. The earthly passions of the exuberant Renaissance love and the platonic gusts of medieval love mysticism divide the human consciousness, doubt thinking, and the creator faces a difficult choice.

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The sacral, platonic-ideal in the experience of the love impulse sculpts the unattached but tangible contour of a dream in the sonnets of Petralka. The mystic of the medieval love explanation, the poet turns into an artistic motive for penetrating into the rigid, airy spaces of love. But this is also part of the truth about man and Francesco Petralka. His love is platonic. He loves to be loved, but always experiences the love feeling in a state of prayer, confessed ecstasy. Laura is a dream, confession and poetic nurture, but it is also the mature, material image of the Madonna and the Saints who have erected an altar of love in the soul of the poet. The immodest-confessed and sacral-incontinent are filled with the earthly, deep-water passions of love. The beast comes alive. The love sensation "flows" like a river, following the breathless rhythm of the poetic confession, which reveals the serpentine paths of the spirit and flesh of the humanist thinker, but also of the monk-clergy Francesco Petrarca .

The personal measure of confession of love affection is moderate. Sacral and earthly merge their gusts into Petrarca 's sonnets. In them is his soul. but also his measure of love as manifestation of the human in man. His measure of the great human personality is definitely expressed in the maxima: "It is not a wise man who does not know himself" of the treatise "For the true wisdom". But he is not a sage and one who does not recognize himself in love. Through his love sonettes, Francesco Petrarca "recognizes" himself, but also gives "a key" to the intimate "secret" of our own souls.

The suffering love

In the Middle Ages, all the ways that come from man and nature lead to God. For Francesco Petrarca , a Renaissance thinker and poet (1304-1374), all the ways lead to man. Not to the abstract man, who is the "image and likeness" of God, but to the man of flesh and blood. The humanist Petrarca is tempted not by the divine and the Platonic-Iereal, but by the earthly and the real in the passions of man. This is the "mark" of the new Renaissance thought that marked the way of man to freedom. But this is also the path of suffering for the seeker of the truth about himself human thought. Or as Petrarca himself says, "There is nothing higher than freedom of thought, and when I recognize it for others, I demand it for myself. " The freedom to choose the path to love affairs is part of the great personal freedom of the Renaissance man who has rejected the doctrine of medieval morality and has been moralizing and liberating his spiritual world. But in the rebellion of great human thought remains the eternal dispute between light and darkness, between sin and holiness. The contrasting, polar experience of the thought and intimate impulses fills the contemplation of the love dream in the Petrarca sonnets with the fullness of earthly passions.

Beautiful and unblemished is the dream, but earthly, passionate, albeit minorly beautiful, is his love sadness. Cold and frost crucify the soul of the poet. Laura is a Madonna, a holy altar, but also an infinitely-confessed sadness. The seraphic gusts of the spirit reveal the heavy, earthly volumes of coldness, alienation and unrequited feeling. The soul is the captive of a cold idol who has a real-world image. Love for Petrarca is a joy for the confessing spirit, but also death for the burnt hope. Light and darkness touch their poetic volumes in the sonnar confessions of Petrarca . The thought is sculpted by "sinful" joy and light, "holy" sadness. Suffering in Petrarca 's love sonnets is contrasted. It expresses the "polar" graph in the movement of love affection. It reveals the deep impulse of the love tragedy. Love-suffering brings wisdom to the poet's wounded spiritual senses. He himself searches for the "source" of sadness, who "sings" with minor tones in spirit and thought to discover in the tumultuous taste of pain and suffering eternal thirst in the love of shared feeling. This is the tragic dream of the soul crucified between the fury of the earthly, carnal desire and the icy breath of the platonic, seraphic impulse of feeling.Passion and sentience knit the contrasting range of moods, images and metaphorical messages in the precise sonnet form of Petrarca 's love tragic confessions.

The eyes I spoke of once in words that burn,
the arms and hands and feet and lovely face
that took me from myself for such a space
of time and marked me out from other men;

the waving hair of unmixed gold that shone,
the smile that flashed with the angelic rays
that used to make this earth a paradise,
are now a little dust, all feeling gone;

and yet I live, grief and disdain to me,
left where the light I cherished never shows,
in fragile bark on the tempestuous sea.

Here let my loving song come to a close,
the vein of my accustomed art is dry,
and this, my lyre, turned at last to tears.

The Divine in the love impulse provokes the earthly, human passion, which in turn carries the "divine" spark of the "sinful" human conception. The man - the "likeness of God" or the man - the fruit of sinful temptation, with the same right chooses love in himself and suffers equally for it. Petrarca discovers the path to love affection through the divine and earthly in his soul, whose poetry he has expressed in his sonnets.