Petrarch: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 0226437418 ISBN 13: 9780226437415

Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2009

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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.

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Victoria Kirkham is professor emerita of Romance languages at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of three books, most recently of Fabulous Vernacular: Boccaccio’s Filocolo and the Art of Medieval Fiction. Armando Maggi is professor of Romance languages and a member of the Committee on the History of Culture at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books, including Satan’s Rhetoric and In the Company of Demons, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

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PETRARCH

A Critical Guide to the Complete Works

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Contents

List of Illustrations...............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ixAcknowledgments.....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................xiNote on Bibliographical Forms and Abbreviations.....................................................................................................................................................................................................................xiiiChronology of Petrarch's Life and Works Victoria Kirkham...........................................................................................................................................................................................................xvA Life's Work Victoria Kirkham.....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................11 The Self in the Labyrinth of Time (Rerum vulgarium fragmenta) Teodolinda Barolini...............................................................................................................................................................................332 The Poem of Memory (Triumphi) Fabio Finotti.....................................................................................................................................................................................................................633 Petrarch's Damned Poetry and the Poetics of Exclusion (Rime disperse) Justin Steinberg..........................................................................................................................................................................854 The Rebirth of the Romans as Models of Character (De viris illustribus) Ronald G. Witt..........................................................................................................................................................................1035 Petrarch's Philological Epic (Africa) Simone Marchesi...........................................................................................................................................................................................................1136 The Beginnings of Humanistic Oratory: Petrarch's Coronation Oration (Collatio laureationis) Dennis Looney.......................................................................................................................................................1317 Petrarch the Courtier: Five Public Speeches (Arenga facta Venecijs, Arringa facta Mediolani, Arenga facta in civitate Novarie, Collatio brevis coram Iohanne Francorum rege, Orazione per la seconda ambasceria veneziana) Victoria Kirkham.....................1418 The Unforgettable Books of Things to Be Remembered (Rerum memorandarum libri) Paolo Cherchi.....................................................................................................................................................................1519 Pastoral as Personal Mythology in History (Bucolicum carmen) Stefano Carrai.....................................................................................................................................................................................16510 "You Will Be My Solitude": Solitude as Prophecy (De vita solitaria) Armando Maggi...............................................................................................................................................................................17911 A Humanistic Approach to Religious Solitude (De otio religioso) Susanna Barsella................................................................................................................................................................................19712 The Burning Question: Crisis and Cosmology in the Secret (Secretum) David Marsh.................................................................................................................................................................................21113 Petrarch's Personal Psalms (Psalmi penitentiales) E. Ann Matter.................................................................................................................................................................................................21914 The Place of the Itinerarium (Itinerarium ad sepulchrum domini nostri Yhesu Christi) Theodore J. Cachey Jr......................................................................................................................................................22915 On the Two Faces of Fortune (De remediis utriusque fortune) Timothy Kircher.....................................................................................................................................................................................24516 The Art of Invective (Invective contra medicum) Stefano Cracolici...............................................................................................................................................................................................25517 The Economy of Invective and a Man in the Middle (De sui ipsius et multorum ignorantia) William J. Kennedy......................................................................................................................................................26318 A Poetic Journal (Epystole) Giuseppe Velli......................................................................................................................................................................................................................27719 The Book without a Name: Petrarch's Open Secret (Liber sine nomine) Ronald L. Martinez..........................................................................................................................................................................29120 The Uncollected Poet (Lettere disperse) Lynn Lara Westwater.....................................................................................................................................................................................................30121 Petrarch's Epistolary Epic: Letters on Familiar Matters (Rerum familiarum libri) Giuseppe F. Mazzotta...........................................................................................................................................................30922 Letters of Old Age: Love between Men, Griselda, and Farewell to Letters (Rerum senilium libri) David Wallace....................................................................................................................................................32123 To Write As Another: The Testamentum (Testamentum) Armando...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0226437418
• ISBN 13: 9780226437415
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 542
• Herausgeber: Kirkham Victoria, Maggi Armando
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