Life Of Petrarch

Author : Christopher S. Celenza
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781780238777

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Petrarch by Christopher S. Celenza Pdf

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.

Author : Petrarch
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002-10-31
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780141935447

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Canzoniere by Petrarch Pdf

The 'Canzoniere', a sequence of sonnets and other verse forms, were written over a period of about 40 years. They describe Petrarch's intense love for Laura, whom he first met in Avignon in 1327, and her effect on him after she died in 1348. The collection is an examination of the poet's growing spiritual crisis, and also explores important contemporary issues such as the role of the papacy and religion.

Author : Thomas Campbell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : Authors, Italian
ISBN : WISC:89095723011

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Life of Petrarch by Thomas Campbell Pdf

Author : Ernest Hatch Wilkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Authors, Italian
ISBN : UOM:39076006900125

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Life of Petrarch by Ernest Hatch Wilkins Pdf

Biography of the 14th century Italian scholar.

Author : Thomas Campbell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : Authors, Italian
ISBN : OXFORD:600034197

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Life of Petrarch by Thomas Campbell Pdf

Author : Francesco Petrarca
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1481317121

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The Life of Solitude by Francesco Petrarca Pdf

Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch, 1304?1374) is universally regarded as one of the greatest Italian poets and considered to be the "Father of Renaissance Humanism." Petrarch is best known for his poetry, and especially for his sonnets, composed in the vernacular Italian dialect of his homeland. But Petrarch was also the author of an extraordinary body of prose works in Latin, including numerous books, essays, and volumes of his letters, which, with Cicero as his model, he collected, edited, and preserved for posterity. Included among these Latin prose works is The Life of Solitude ( De vita solitaria), which Petrarch began during Lent of 1346, and then sent in 1366?after twenty years of reflection, addition, and correction?to its dedicatee. Book I contains an argument for why a life of solitude and contemplation is superior to a busy life of civic obligation and commerce. Book II contains a long enumeration of exemplars of the solitary life drawn from history and literature (and occasionally mythology). Included in Book II are provocative digressions on whether one has an obligation to serve a tyrant and on the failures of contemporary monarchs to recover the holy sites in the East. Petrarch?s solitary life is not an apology for monastic solitude. On the contrary, it contains a strong defense of friendship, the pursuit of virtue, and the roles that both secular and religious literature and philosophy play in human flourishing. This updated edition of Jacob Zeitlin?s 1924 English translation restructures and numbers the text to make it consistent with the best available scholarly editions of De vita solitaria. The volume includes a new introduction by Scott H. Moore, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Great Texts and Assistant Director of the University Scholars Program at Baylor University, which situates Petrarch and the text within the larger traditions of virtue ethics, renaissance humanism, and reflections on the solitary life.

Author : Petrarch
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781466872899

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The Poetry of Petrarch by Petrarch Pdf

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.

Author : Thomas Campbell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600034198

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Life of Petrarch by Thomas Campbell Pdf

Author : Igor Candido
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-19
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783110419580

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Petrarch and Boccaccio by Igor Candido Pdf

The early modern and modern cultural world in the West would be unthinkable without Petrarch and Boccaccio. Despite this fact, there is still no scholarly contribution entirely devoted to analysing their intellectual revolution. Internationally renowned scholars are invited to discuss and rethink the historical, intellectual, and literary roles of Petrarch and Boccaccio between the great model of Dante’s encyclopedia and the ideas of a double or multifaceted culture in the era of Italian Renaissance Humanism. In his lyrical poems and Latin treatises, Petrarch created a cultural pattern that was both Christian and Classical, exercising immense influence on the Western World in the centuries to come. Boccaccio translated this pattern into his own vernacular narratives and erudite works, ultimately claiming as his own achievement the reconstructed unity of the Ancient Greek and Latin world in his contemporary age. The volume reconsiders Petrarch’s and Boccaccio’s heritages from different perspectives (philosophy, theology, history, philology, paleography, literature, theory), and investigates how these heritages shaped the cultural transition between the end of the Middle Ages and the early modern era, as well as European identity.

Author : Jacques François Paul Aldonce de Sade
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1799
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10065783

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The Life Of Petrarch by Jacques François Paul Aldonce de Sade Pdf

Author : Thomas Campbell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1843
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0022800966

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Life of Petrarch. With plates, including a portrait by Thomas Campbell Pdf

Author : Jacques François Paul Aldonce de SADE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1799
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023488109

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The Life of Petrarch. Collected from Mémoires Pour la Vie de Petrarch [by J. F. P. A. de Sade], by Mrs. Dobson ... The Fourth Edition, Etc by Jacques François Paul Aldonce de SADE Pdf

Author : Jacques François Paul Aldonce de SADE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1803
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026780715

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The Life of Petrarch. Collected from Mémoires Pour la Vie de Petrarch [by J. F. P. A. de Sade], by Mrs. Dobson ... The Fifth Edition, Etc by Jacques François Paul Aldonce de SADE Pdf

Author : Jacques François Paul Aldonce de SADE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1805
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023418939

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The Life of Petrarch. Collected from Mémoires Pour la Vie de Petrarch [by J. F. P. A. de Sade], by Mrs. Dobson ... The Sixth Edition, Etc by Jacques François Paul Aldonce de SADE Pdf

Author : Susanna Dobson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1775
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BNC:1001988095

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The Life of Petrarch by Susanna Dobson Pdf