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Invectives (I TATTI RENAISSANCE LIBRARY) - Hardcover

Buch 11 von 101: The I Tatti Renaissance Library

Petrarca, Francesco

 
9780674011540: Invectives (I TATTI RENAISSANCE LIBRARY)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0674011546 ISBN 13: 9780674011540
Verlag: Harvard University Press, 2004

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Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374), one of the greatest of Italian poets, was also the leading spirit in the Renaissance movement to revive ancient Roman language and literature. Just as Petrarch's Latin epic Africa imitated Virgil and his compendium On Illustrious Men was inspired by Livy, so Petrarch's four Invectives were intended to revive the eloquence of the great Roman orator Cicero. The Invectives are directed against the cultural idols of the Middle Ages--against scholastic philosophy and medicine and the dominance of French culture in general. They defend the value of literary culture against obscurantism and provide a clear statement of the values of Renaissance humanism. This volume provides a new critical edition of the Latin text based on the two autograph copies, and the first English translation of three of the four invectives.

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David Marsh is Professor of Italian at Rutgers University and an expert on the Italian Renaissance. He has published broadly on Renaissance humanism and the classical tradition and has translated seminal texts by important early-modern authors including Petrarch, Alberti, Leonardo da Vinci, and Vico.

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Verlag
Harvard University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Latein
ISBN 10 
0674011546
ISBN 13 
9780674011540
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
576
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