Petrarch In English

Author : Thomas Roche
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005-12-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780141936727

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Petrarch in English by Thomas Roche Pdf

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.

Author : Petrarch
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 40,9 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 : Francesco Petrarca
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1807
Category : Electronic
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000121936

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The Triumphs of Petrarch by Francesco Petrarca Pdf

Author : Alessandra Petrina
Publisher : MHRA
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781781888827

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Petrarch’s Triumphi in English by Alessandra Petrina Pdf

This edition argues that Petrarch's text has been neglected by modern scholarship in favour of the translations of the Canzoniere, while it can be shown that the Triumphi enjoyed a much earlier and much more durable fame in Europe as well as in the British Isles, being translated at least twice in its entirety, with individual books and smaller sections being translated or adapted a number of times. Critical editions of the translations are accompanied by analysis of the reception of Petrarch's work in the British Isles, looking at the circulation of the book in the original Italian and in the various French translations, as well as at the use that is made of the Triumphi motifs not only in literature, but in paintings, music, etc.

Author : Petrarch
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,5 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 : Petrarch
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781624661990

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The Essential Petrarch by Petrarch Pdf

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

Author : Christopher S. Celenza
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,7 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 : Victoria Kirkham,Armando Maggi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226437439

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Petrarch by Victoria Kirkham,Armando Maggi Pdf

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.

Author : Francesco Petrarca
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674003460

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My Secret Book by Francesco Petrarca Pdf

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.

Author : Carole Birkan-Berz,Guillaume Coatalen,Thomas Vuong
Publisher : Legenda
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1781886636

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Translating Petrarch's Poetry by Carole Birkan-Berz,Guillaume Coatalen,Thomas Vuong Pdf

Petrarch is arguably the most influential poet in Western culture. Ranging through five centuries of translations, adaptations and imitations of the father of Humanism, this transcultural, transdisciplinary study considers the echoes of a major figure, whose reach goes beyond borders and eras to resonate singularly into our times.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789401201483

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Petrarch’s Canzoniere in the English Renaissance by Anonim Pdf

Seven centuries after the birth of Petrarch (1304-74) the nature and extent of his influence loom ever larger in the study of renaissance literature. In this revised and expanded edition of Petrarch's Canzoniere in the English Renaissance Anthony Mortimer presents a unique anthology of 136 English poems together with the specific Italian texts that they translate, adapt or exploit. The result, with its revealing juxtapositions of major and minor figures, makes fascinating reading for anyone who wants to get beyond broad generalizations about Petrarchism and see exactly what English poets made of Petrarch's celebrated sequence. Reviewing the first edition, Professor Brian Vickers wrote: An ideal text-book for university courses in English or Comparative Literature. The critical introduction is a fresh, independent and accurate survey of the role of Petrarchism in the English Renaissance ... our literary history is being rewritten, more accurately.

Author : Francesco Petrarca
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Education
ISBN : 0674663489

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Petrarch's Lyric Poems by Francesco Petrarca Pdf

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.

Author : Francesco Petrarca
Publisher : London : H. G. Bohn
Page : 1000 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044012993887

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The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Francesco Petrarca Pdf

Author : Francesco Petrarca
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0192839519

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Selections from the Canzoniere and Other Works by Francesco Petrarca Pdf

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.

Author : Francesco Petrarca
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0415942411

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Canzoniere: Poems written in the lifetime of madonna Laura by Francesco Petrarca Pdf

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.