The Cambridge companion to Petrarch /
"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 s...
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Cambridge University Press,
2015.
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Table of 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 Petrarchisms / William J. Kennedy
- Part VI. Conclusion: 18. Petrarch's confrontation with modernity / Giuseppe Mazzotta.