The worlds of Petrarch / Giuseppe Mazzotta.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mazzotta, Giuseppe, 1942-

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Duke monographs in medieval and Renaissance studies ; no. 14.

Duke monographs in medieval and Renaissance studies ; 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374--Criticism and interpretation.

Petrarca, Francesco.

Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.

Civilization, Medieval, in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 p

Contents:

Note on Petrarch's Texts

Introduction

I Antiquity and the New Arts

II The Thought of Love

III The Canzoniere and the Language of the Self

IV Ethics of Self

V The World of History

VI Orpheus: Rhetoric and Music

VII Humanism and Monastic Spirituality

Appendix 1: Petrarch's Song 126

Appendix 2: Ambivalences of Power

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612919794

9781282919792

1282919792

9780822382614

082238261X

OCLC:

850215538