TY - JOUR TI - Petrarch’s Padua, the Poles’ Padua: the De viris illustribus and virile portraiture AU - Lokaj, Rodney John TI - Petrarch’s Padua, the Poles’ Padua: the De viris illustribus and virile portraiture AB - The article illustrates how visitors coming to Padua could learn about Italian humanism by studying Petrarch, not only where he had lived and what he had written but also how his legacy was represented and thus perpetuated under the direction of Petrarch’s former secretary and copyist, Lombardo della Seta, particularly in the fresco by Altichiero in the Oratory of Saint George to the right of the façade of the Basilica of Saint Anthony. VL - Volume 23 (2023) IS - Special Issue 3 PY - 2023 SN - 1732-8705 C1 - 2084-3917 SP - 281 EP - 286 DO - 10.4467/20843917RC.23.030.18870 UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/romanica-cracoviensia/article/la-padova-di-petrarca-la-padova-dei-polacchi-il-de-viris-illustribus-e-la-nuova-concezione-di-ritrattistica-virile KW - Petrarch KW - Lombardo della Seta KW - Altichiero KW - Padua KW - humanism