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Il Canzoniere, an Uncommon card
Il Canzoniere, also known as the Rime Sparse, but originally titled Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, is a collection of poems written in the Italian language by Petrarch.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 52
- DEF
- 32
- Power
- 84
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 19,000
Power 84 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 25 % of WikiCards cards.
Il Canzoniere quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Il Canzoniere card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Of its 366 poems, the vast majority are in sonnet form, though the ______ contains a number of canzoni, sestine, madrigals, and ballate.
Answer
sequence. Of its 366 poems, the vast majority are in sonnet form, though the sequence contains a number of canzoni, sestine, madrigals, and ballate. From the Il Canzoniere article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Its central theme is the poet's love for Laura, a woman Petrarch allegedly met on April 6, ____, in the Church of Sainte Claire in Avignon.
Answer
1320s. Its central theme is the poet's love for Laura, a woman Petrarch allegedly met on April 6, 1327, in the Church of Sainte Claire in Avignon. From the Il Canzoniere article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Elizabeth Barry. Elizabeth Barry 61 · Bakht Singh 58 · Gibson Hummingbird 55 · Il Canzoniere 52 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Though the majority of Petrarch's output was in Latin, the Canzoniere was written in the vernacular, a language of trade, despite Petrarch's view that Italian was less adequate for expression.
- Of its 366 poems, the vast majority are in sonnet form, though the sequence contains a number of canzoni, sestine, madrigals, and ballate.
- Its central theme is the poet's love for Laura, a woman Petrarch allegedly met on April 6, 1327, in the Church of Sainte Claire in Avignon.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Il Canzoniere article was read about 19,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 52 and blocks with 32: each hit it takes is cut by 13 %.
How to get Il Canzoniere
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Il Canzoniere (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Francesco Petrarca and unknown illustrator, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
