National Endowment for the Humanities
Summer Seminar for Teachers

Petrarch and Provence:
Between Seclusion and the World

July 3 to July 30, 2004
Avignon, France

Under the direction of Ronald G. Witt, William B. Hamilton Professor of History, Duke University, this four-week seminar will study on location a selection of Petrarch's writings composed in Avignon and the Vaucluse. Exploration of the intimate tie between site and text will enhance appreciation of the texts themselves and understanding of the emotional and intellectual complexity of the father of Italian humanism.

For further information contact James Palmer at the address below.