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• Title:The Cambridge companion to Petrarch / edited by Albert Russell Ascoli and Unn Falkeid.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Ascoli, Albert Russell, 1953- editor.
  Falkeid, Unn, editor.
  
• Published/Created:Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
  ©2015
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: PQ4505 .C15 2015
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374--Criticism and interpretation.
  
• Description:xxii, 266 pages ; 23 cm
  
• Series:Cambridge companions to literature.
  
• 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"-- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781107006140 hardcover
  1107006147 hardcover
  9780521185042 paperback
  0521185041 paperback
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. I LIVES OF PETRARCH
  1. Poetry in motion / Theodore J. Cachey, Jr.
  2. Petrarch and his friends / Hannah Chapelle Wojciehowski
  pt. 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. Triumphi / Zygmunt G. Baranski
  pt. III PETRARCH'S WORKS: LATIN
  7. Latin hexameter works: Epystole, Bucolicum carmen, Africa / Ronald L. Martinez
  8. 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
  pt. 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
  pt. 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
  pt. VI CONCLUSION
  18. Petrarch's confrontation with modernity / Giuseppe Mazzotta.