The Cambridge companion to Petrarch / Edited by Albert Russell Ascoli, Unn Falkeid.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ascoli, Albert Russell, 1953- editor.

Falkeid, Unn, editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to literature.

Cambridge companions to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Petrarca, Francesco.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 266 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca, 1304-1374), best known for his influential collection of Italian lyric poetry dedicated to his beloved Laura, was also a remarkable classical scholar, a deeply religious thinker and a philosopher of secular ethics. In this wide-ranging study, chapters by leading scholars view Petrarch's life through his works, from the epic Africa to the Letter to Posterity, from the Canzoniere to the vernacular epic Triumphi. Petrarch is revealed as the heir to the converging influences of classical cultural and medieval Christianity, but also to his great vernacular precursor, Dante, and his friend, collaborator and sly critic, Boccaccio. Particular attention is given to Petrach's profound influence on the Humanist movement and on the courtly cult of vernacular love poetry, while raising important questions as to the validity of the distinction between medieval and modern and what is lost in attempting to classify this elusive figure.

Contents:

Part I. Lives of Petrarch: 1. Poetry in motion / Theodore J. Cachey, Jr.

2. Petrarch and his friends / Hannah Chapelle Wojciehowski; Part II. Petrarch's Works: Italian: 3. Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta: structure and narrative / Peter Hainsworth

4. Making the Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta / Luca Marcozzi

5. Petrarch's Singular Love Lyric / Ullrich Langer

6. The Triumphi / Zygmunt G. Barański; Part III. Petrarch's Works: Latin: 7. The Latin hexameter works: Epystole, Bucolicum carmen, Africa / Ronald L. Martinez

8. The defense of poetry in the Secretum / Victoria Kahn

9. De Vita Solitaria and De Otio Religioso: the perspective of the guest / Unn Falkeid

10. Epistolary Petrarch / Albert Russell Ascoli

Part IV. Petrarch's Interlocutors: 11. Petrarch and the Ancients / Gur Zak

12. Petrarch and the vernacular lyric past / Olivia Holmes

13. Petrarch's adversaries: the Invectives / David Marsh; Part V. Petrarch's Afterlife: 14. Petrarch and the Humanists / Timothy Kircher

15. Bembo and Italian Petrarchism / Stefano Jossa

16. Female Petrarchists / Ann Rosalind Jones

17. Iberian, French, and English Petrarchism / William J. Kennedy; Part VI. Conclusion: 18. Petrarch's confrontation with modernity / Giuseppe Mazzotta.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781316408667

1316408663

9781316409725

1316409724

9780511795008

0511795009

OCLC:

927582963