Petrarch

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Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780238770
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Book Synopsis Petrarch by : Christopher S. Celenza

Download or read book Petrarch written by Christopher S. Celenza and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2022-08-22 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enlightening study of the contradictory character of this canonical fourteenth-century Italian poet. Born in Tuscany in 1304, Italian poet Francesco Petrarca is widely considered one of the fathers of the modern Italian language. Though his writings inspired the humanist movement and subsequently the Renaissance, Petrarch remains misunderstood. He was a man of contradictions—a Roman pagan devotee and a devout Christian, a lover of friendship and sociability, yet intensely private. In this biography, Christopher S. Celenza revisits Petrarch’s life and work for the first time in decades, considering how the scholar’s reputation and identity have changed since his death in 1374. He brings to light Petrarch’s unrequited love for his poetic muse, the anti-institutional attitude he developed as he sought a path to modernity by looking backward to antiquity, and his endless focus on himself. Drawing on both Petrarch’s Italian and Latin writings, this is a revealing portrait of a figure of paradoxes: a man of mystique, historical importance, and endless fascination. It is the only book on Petrarch suitable for students, general readers, and scholars alike.

Petrarch in English

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 014193672X
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Book Synopsis Petrarch in English by : Thomas Roche

Download or read book Petrarch in English written by Thomas Roche and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Franceso Petrarch (1304-1374), creator of the sonnet form, remained for more than three hundred years the most influential poet in Europe, his works more widely read than even those of Dante. This collection contains English language versions of his poems from across six centuries, in a wide variety of translations and reinterpretations. Spanning the Trionfi series and the Canzoniere - Petrarch's empassioned sonnet-sequence concerning his beloved Laura - it also includes great English poems influenced by Petrarch. From Chaucer's early adaptation of a Petrarchan sonnet in Troilus and Criseyde to the sixteenth century translations by the Earl of Surrey, Byron's mocking consideration of the Canzoniere in Don Juan and Ezra Pound's parody Silet, all provide a unique insight into the significance of the founder of the European lyric tradition.

The Essential Petrarch

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Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1624661998
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (246 download)

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Book Synopsis The Essential Petrarch by : Petrarch

Download or read book The Essential Petrarch written by Petrarch and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Petrarch fashioned so many different versions of himself for posterity that it is an exacting task to establish where one might start to explore. . . . Hainsworth's study meets this problem through examples of what Petrarch wrote, and does so decisively and succinctly. . . . [A] careful and unpretentious book, penetrating in its organization and treatment of its subject, gentle in its guidance of the reader, nimble and dexterous in its scholarly infrastructure—and no less profound for those qualities of lightness. The translations themselves are a delight, and are clearly the result of profound meditation and extensive experiment. . . . The Introduction and the notes to each work form a clear plexus of support for the reader, with a host of deft cross-references. --Richard Mackenny, Binghamton University, State University of New York

Petrarch

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226437434
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Book Synopsis Petrarch by : Victoria Kirkham

Download or read book Petrarch written by Victoria Kirkham and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-06-10 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Francesco Petrarca (1304–74) is best known today for cementing the sonnet’s place in literary history, he was also a philosopher, historian, orator, and one of the foremost classical scholars of his age. Petrarch: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works is the only comprehensive, single-volume source to which anyone—scholar, student, or general reader—can turn for information on each of Petrarch’s works, its place in the poet’s oeuvre, and a critical exposition of its defining features. A sophisticated but accessible handbook that illuminates Petrarch’s love of classical culture, his devout Christianity, his public celebrity, and his struggle for inner peace, this encyclopedic volume covers both Petrarch’s Italian and Latin writings and the various genres in which he excelled: poem, tract, dialogue, oration, and letter. A biographical introduction and chronology anchor the book, making Petrarch an invaluable resource for specialists in Italian, comparative literature, history, classics, religious studies, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance.

The Poetry of Petrarch

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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466872896
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Book Synopsis The Poetry of Petrarch by : Petrarch

Download or read book The Poetry of Petrarch written by Petrarch and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ineffable sweetness, bold, uncanny sweetness that came to my eyes from her lovely face; from that day on I'd willingly have closed them, never to gaze again at lesser beauties. --from Sonnet 116 Petrarch was born in Tuscany and grew up in the south of France. He lived his life in the service of the church, traveled widely, and during his lifetime was a revered, model man of letters. Petrarch's greatest gift to posterity was his Rime in vita e morta di Madonna Laura, the cycle of poems popularly known as his songbook. By turns full of wit, languor, and fawning, endlessly inventive, in a tightly composed yet ornate form they record their speaker's unrequited obsession with the woman named Laura. In the centuries after it was designed, the "Petrarchan sonnet," as it would be known, inspired the greatest love poets of the English language--from the times of Spenser and Shakespeare to our own. David Young's fresh, idiomatic version of Petrarch's poetry is the most readable and approachable that we have. In his skillful hands, Petrarch almost sounds like a poet out of our own tradition bringing the wheel of influence full circle.

Petrarch's Lyric Poems

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674663480
Total Pages : 682 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (634 download)

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Book Synopsis Petrarch's Lyric Poems by : Francesco Petrarca

Download or read book Petrarch's Lyric Poems written by Francesco Petrarca and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Durling's edition of Petrarch's poems has become the standard. Readers have praised the translation of the authoritative text as graceful and accurate, conveying a real understanding of what this difficult poet is saying. The literalness of the prose translation makes this book especially useful to students who lack a full command of Italian.

My Secret Book

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674003462
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Book Synopsis My Secret Book by : Francesco Petrarca

Download or read book My Secret Book written by Francesco Petrarca and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-13 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Petrarch was the leading spirit in the Renaissance movement to revive literary Latin, the language of the Roman Empire, and Greco-Roman culture in general. My Secret Book reveals a remarkable self-awareness as he probes and evaluates the springs of his own morally dubious addictions to fame and love.

Petrarch's Humanism and the Care of the Self

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521114675
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)

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Book Synopsis Petrarch's Humanism and the Care of the Self by : Gur Zak

Download or read book Petrarch's Humanism and the Care of the Self written by Gur Zak and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-17 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Gur Zak examines two central issues in Petrarch's works - his humanist philosophy and his concept of the self.

Petrarch and Boccaccio

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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110419580
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Book Synopsis Petrarch and Boccaccio by : Igor Candido

Download or read book Petrarch and Boccaccio written by Igor Candido and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die Buchreihe Mimesis präsentiert unter ihrem neuen Untertitel Romanische Literaturen der Welt ein innovatives und integrales Verständnis der Romania wie der Romanistik aus literaturwissenschaftlicher und kulturtheoretischer Perspektive. Sie trägt der Tatsache Rechnung, dass die faszinierende Entwicklung der romanischen Literaturen und Kulturen in Europa wie außerhalb Europas neue weltweite Dynamiken in Gang gesetzt hat, welche die großen Traditionen der Romania fortschreiben und auf neue Horizonte hin öffnen. In Mimesis kommt ein transareales, die europäische und die außereuropäische Welt romanischer Literaturen und Kulturen zusammendenkendes Verständnis der Romanistik zur Geltung, das über nationale wie disziplinäre Grenzziehungen hinweg die oft übersehenen Wechselwirkungen zwischen unterschiedlichen Traditions- und Entwicklungslinien in Europa und den Amerikas, in Afrika und Asien entfaltet. Im Archipel der Romanistik zeigt Mimesis auf, wie die dargestellte Wirklichkeit in den romanischen Literaturen der Welt die Tür zu einem vielsprachigen Kosmos verschiedenartiger Logiken öffnet.

Petrarch's Book Without a Name

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Publisher : PIMS
ISBN 13 : 9780888442604
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Book Synopsis Petrarch's Book Without a Name by : Francesco Petrarca

Download or read book Petrarch's Book Without a Name written by Francesco Petrarca and published by PIMS. This book was released on 1973 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A criticism of the papal court at Avignon.

Petrarch and Dante

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ISBN 13 : 9780268048778
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (487 download)

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Book Synopsis Petrarch and Dante by : Zygmunt G. Baranski

Download or read book Petrarch and Dante written by Zygmunt G. Baranski and published by . This book was released on 2009-08-15 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the beginnings of Italian vernacular literature, the nature of the relationship between Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374) and his predecessor Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) has remained an open and endlessly fascinating question of both literary and cultural history. In this volume nine leading scholars of Italian medieval literature and culture address this question involving the two foundational figures of Italian literature. Through their collective reexamination of the question of who and what came between Petrarch and Dante in ideological, historiographical, and rhetorical terms, the authors explore the emergence of an anti-Dantean polemic in Petrarch's work. That stance has largely escaped scrutiny, thanks to a critical tradition that tends to minimize any suggestion of rivalry or incompatibility between them. The authors examine Petrarch's contentious and dismissive attitude toward the literary authority of his illustrious predecessor; the dramatic shift in theological and philosophical context that occurs from Dante to Petrarch; and their respective contributions as initiators of modern literary traditions in the vernacular. Petrarch's substantive ideological dissent from Dante clearly emerges, a dissent that casts in high relief the poets' radically divergent views of the relation between the human and the divine and of humans' capacity to bridge that gap.

Itinerarium Ad Sepulchrum Domini Nostri Yehsu Christi

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Itinerarium Ad Sepulchrum Domini Nostri Yehsu Christi written by Francesco Petrarca and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2002 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award for a Manuscript in Italian Literary Studies, Modern Language Association

The Structure of Petrarch's Canzoniere

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Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9780859914109
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (141 download)

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Book Synopsis The Structure of Petrarch's Canzoniere by : Frederic J. Jones

Download or read book The Structure of Petrarch's Canzoniere written by Frederic J. Jones and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1995 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examination of the chronology of the poems of Part 1 of Petrarch's Canzoniereconsidered with reference to the Catastrophe Theory.

The Worlds of Petrarch

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Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 082238261X
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Book Synopsis The Worlds of Petrarch by : Giuseppe Mazzotta

Download or read book The Worlds of Petrarch written by Giuseppe Mazzotta and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1993-10-20 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 part of a common vision. Written in a clear and passionate style, The Worlds of Petrarch takes us into the politics of culture, the poetic imagination, into history and ethics, art and music, rhetoric and theology. With this encyclopedic strategy, Mazzotta is able to demonstrate that the self for Petrarch is not a unified whole but a unity of parts, and, at the same time, that culture emerges not from a consensus but from a conflict of ideas produced by opposition and dark passion. These conflicts, intrinsic to Petrarch's style of thought, lead Mazzotta to a powerful rethinking of the concepts of "fragments" and "unity" and, finally, to a new understanding of the relationship between them.

Selections from the Canzoniere and Other Works

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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192839510
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (395 download)

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Book Synopsis Selections from the Canzoniere and Other Works by : Francesco Petrarca

Download or read book Selections from the Canzoniere and Other Works written by Francesco Petrarca and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This entirely new translation includes Petrarch's short autobiographical prose works, The Letter to Posterity and The Ascent of Mount Ventoux, and a selection of twenty-seven poems from the Canzoniere, Petrarch's best-known work in Italian.

INVECTIVES

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674042093
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book INVECTIVES written by Francesco Petrarca and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374), one of the greatest of Italian poets, was also the leading spirit in the Renaissance movement to revive ancient Roman language and literature. Just as Petrarch's Latin epic Africa imitated Virgil and his compendium On Illustrious Men was inspired by Livy, so Petrarch's four Invectives were intended to revive the eloquence of the great Roman orator Cicero. The Invectives are directed against the cultural idols of the Middle Ages--against scholastic philosophy and medicine and the dominance of French culture in general. They defend the value of literary culture against obscurantism and provide a clear statement of the values of Renaissance humanism. This volume provides a new critical edition of the Latin text based on the two autograph copies, and the first English translation of three of the four invectives. Table of Contents: Introduction Invectives against a Physician Invective against a Man of High Rank with No Knowledge or Virtue On His Own Ignorance and That of Many Others Invective against a Detractor of Italy Note on the Texts and Translations Notes to the Text Notes to the Translation Bibliography Index

Life of Petrarch

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Book Synopsis Life of Petrarch by : Thomas Campbell

Download or read book Life of Petrarch written by Thomas Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: