Book Description
A criticism of the papal court at Avignon.
Author : Francesco Petrarca
Publisher : PIMS
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 26,1 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780888442604
A criticism of the papal court at Avignon.
Author : Christopher S. Celenza
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 32,11 MB
Release : 2022-08-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1780238770
An enlightening study of the contradictory character of this canonical fourteenth-century Italian poet. Born in Tuscany in 1304, Italian poet Francesco Petrarca is widely considered one of the fathers of the modern Italian language. Though his writings inspired the humanist movement and subsequently the Renaissance, Petrarch remains misunderstood. He was a man of contradictions—a Roman pagan devotee and a devout Christian, a lover of friendship and sociability, yet intensely private. In this biography, Christopher S. Celenza revisits Petrarch’s life and work for the first time in decades, considering how the scholar’s reputation and identity have changed since his death in 1374. He brings to light Petrarch’s unrequited love for his poetic muse, the anti-institutional attitude he developed as he sought a path to modernity by looking backward to antiquity, and his endless focus on himself. Drawing on both Petrarch’s Italian and Latin writings, this is a revealing portrait of a figure of paradoxes: a man of mystique, historical importance, and endless fascination. It is the only book on Petrarch suitable for students, general readers, and scholars alike.
Author : Francesco Petrarca
Publisher :
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 34,22 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Authors, Italian
ISBN :
Author : Francesco Petrarca
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,23 MB
Release : 2016-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0674003462
Petrarch was the leading spirit in the Renaissance movement to revive literary Latin, the language of the Roman Empire, and Greco-Roman culture in general. My Secret Book reveals a remarkable self-awareness as he probes and evaluates the springs of his own morally dubious addictions to fame and love.
Author : Victoria Kirkham
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 36,22 MB
Release : 2009-06-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0226437434
Although Francesco Petrarca (1304–74) is best known today for cementing the sonnet’s place in literary history, he was also a philosopher, historian, orator, and one of the foremost classical scholars of his age. Petrarch: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works is the only comprehensive, single-volume source to which anyone—scholar, student, or general reader—can turn for information on each of Petrarch’s works, its place in the poet’s oeuvre, and a critical exposition of its defining features. A sophisticated but accessible handbook that illuminates Petrarch’s love of classical culture, his devout Christianity, his public celebrity, and his struggle for inner peace, this encyclopedic volume covers both Petrarch’s Italian and Latin writings and the various genres in which he excelled: poem, tract, dialogue, oration, and letter. A biographical introduction and chronology anchor the book, making Petrarch an invaluable resource for specialists in Italian, comparative literature, history, classics, religious studies, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance.
Author : Giuseppe Mazzotta
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 32,18 MB
Release : 1993-10-20
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 082238261X
At the center of Petrarch's vision, announcing a new way of seeing the world, was the individual, a sense of the self that would one day become the center of modernity as well. This self, however, seemed to be fragmented in Petrarch's work, divided among the worlds of philosophy, faith, and love of the classics, politics, art, and religion, of Italy, France, Greece, and Rome. In recent decades scholars have explored each of these worlds in depth. In this work, Giuseppe Mazzotta shows for the first time how all these fragmentary explorations relate to each other, how these separate worlds are part of a common vision. Written in a clear and passionate style, The Worlds of Petrarch takes us into the politics of culture, the poetic imagination, into history and ethics, art and music, rhetoric and theology. With this encyclopedic strategy, Mazzotta is able to demonstrate that the self for Petrarch is not a unified whole but a unity of parts, and, at the same time, that culture emerges not from a consensus but from a conflict of ideas produced by opposition and dark passion. These conflicts, intrinsic to Petrarch's style of thought, lead Mazzotta to a powerful rethinking of the concepts of "fragments" and "unity" and, finally, to a new understanding of the relationship between them.
Author : Martin Eisner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 40,50 MB
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107513081
Giovanni Boccaccio played a pivotal role in the extraordinary emergence of the Italian literary tradition in the fourteenth century, not only as author of the Decameron, but also as scribe of Dante, Petrarch and Cavalcanti. Using a single codex written entirely in Boccaccio's hand, Martin Eisner brings together material philology and literary history to reveal the multiple ways Boccaccio authorizes this vernacular literary tradition. Each chapter offers a novel interpretation of Boccaccio as a biographer, storyteller, editor and scribe, who constructs arguments, composes narratives, compiles texts and manipulates material forms to legitimize and advance a vernacular literary canon. Situating these philological activities in the context of Boccaccio's broader reflections on poetry in the Decameron and the Genealogy of the Gentile Gods, the book produces a new portrait of Boccaccio that integrates his vernacular and Latin works, while also providing a new context for understanding his fictions.
Author : Albert Russell Ascoli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 17,99 MB
Release : 2015-11-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107006147
An account of the life and works of Petrarch, scholar and poet, and his influence on European literature and culture.
Author : A. M. Juster
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 20,16 MB
Release : 2001-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780913559703
Delicious translations of a selection of Petrarch's love sonnets.
Author : Francesco Petrarca
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 20,6 MB
Release : 1903
Category : Italian poetry
ISBN :