Author : Thomas E. Peterson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487500025
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)
Book Synopsis Petrarch's 'Fragmenta' by : Thomas E. Peterson
Download or read book Petrarch's 'Fragmenta' written by Thomas E. Peterson and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Building on recent Petrarch scholarship and broader studies of medieval poetics, poetic narrativity and biblical intertextuality, this study argues that Petrarch's Rerum vulgarium fragmenta is an ordered and coherent work unified by narrative and theological structures. The author begins with the premise that the multiple voices of the Petrarchan figure (or subject) call for a reading informed by historical and autobiographical considerations. Within such a reading, the internal chronology of the work coincides with a temporal framework provided by Petrarch's Latin prose and poetry. Drawing on this material, he argues that Petrarch's derivations from early poets in the Italian vernacular, his Augustineanism and his humanism are manifest in the Fragmenta and contribute to its narrative and theological unity."--