Posterity : inventing tradition from Petrarch to Gramsci / Rocco Rubini.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rubini, Rocco, author.

Series:

Chicago scholarship online.

Chicago scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.

Petrarca, Francesco.

Humanism--Italy.

Humanism.

Italy--Intellectual life--Philosophy.

Italy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (357 pages)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2022.

Summary:

Reading a range of Italian works, Rubini considers the active transmittal of traditions through generations of writers and thinkers. Rocco Rubini studies the motives and literary forms in the making of a 'tradition,' not understood narrowly, as the conservative, stubborn preservation of received conventions, values, and institutions, but instead as the deliberate effort on the part of writers to transmit a reformulated past across generations.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Whole or Nothing

1 Primi and Ultimi: Petrarch’s Corpus

2 The Purpose of Literary Criticism: Francesco De Sanctis’s (Anti-) Petrarchism

3 “Do not grow weary of reading, for I do not grow weary of writing”: Goldoni’s Reform of Italian Literature

4 The Vichian Resurrection of Commedia dell’Arte: Reciprocating Modernity between Italy and France

5 Remembering Is Not Thinking: Croce, Gramsci, and Italian Intellectual Autobiography

Conclusion: The Last Renaissance Man

Index

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 5, 2022).

ISBN:

9780226807720

022680772X

OCLC:

1286426841