Petrarch S Canzoniere In The English Renaissance

Author : Francesco Petrarca
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789042016767

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Petrarch's Canzoniere in the English Renaissance by Francesco Petrarca 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 : Unknown
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : English poetry
ISBN : OCLC:13446449

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Petrarch's Canzoniere in the English Renaissance by Francesco Petrarca Pdf

Author : Francesco Petrarca
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2000-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1899293124

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The Canzoniere by Francesco Petrarca Pdf

Francesco Petrarca (1304-74) has been described as the 'first modern man of letters' and his influence on the European lyric tradition has been widespread. The poems of his Canzoniere, closely associated as they are with the enigmatic figure of Laura, were soon to become the models for love-poetry in nearly all major European literatures in the Renaissance. The new translations here use the same rhyme schemes and broadly the same metres as those used by Petrarch himself. The facing English texts are thus not intended to be absolutely literal, but to reflect the inner meanings and moods of the originals, with some further literal translations of difficult passages added in the notes. The notes to the poems also cover their likely dates, mythological allusions, certain background settings, and a number of other calendrical and structural features which appear to emerge from the actual sequencing of the collection itself. There is also a section on old Italian syntax. and other linguistic aids. The new translation of Petrarch's Rerum Vulgarian Fragmenta is in two separate volumes.

Author : Francesco Petrarca
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 911 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : EAN:8596547249269

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

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch" by Francesco Petrarca. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Petrarch
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 44,5 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 : Gordon Braden
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0300076215

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Petrarchan Love and the Continental Renaissance by Gordon Braden Pdf

The 366 lyrics of Petrarch's Canzoniere exert a unique influence in literary history. From the mid-fifteenth century to the early seventeenth, the poems are imitated in every major language of western Europe, and for a time they provide Renaissance Europe with an almost exclusive sense of what love poetry should be. In this stimulating look at the international phenomenon of Petrarch's poetry, Gordon Braden focuses on materials in languages other than English--Italian, French, and Spanish, with brief citations from Croatian and Cypriot Greek, among others. Braden closely examines Petrarch's theme of love for an impossible object of desire, a theme that captivated and inspired across centuries, societies, and languages. The book opens with a fresh interpretation of Petrarch's sequence, in which Braden defines the poet's innovations in the context of his predecessors, Dante and the troubadours. The author then examines how Petrarchan predispositions affect various strains of Renaissance literature: prose narrative, verse narrative, and, primarily, lyric poetry. In the final chapter, Braden turns to the poetry of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz to demonstrate a sophisticated case of Petrarchism taken to one of its extremes within the walls of a convent in seventeenth-century Mexico.

Author : Victoria Kirkham,Armando Maggi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 50,5 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 : DigiCat
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : Poetry
ISBN : EAN:8596547365600

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Fifteen sonnets of Petrarch by Francesco Petrarca Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Fifteen sonnets of Petrarch" by Francesco Petrarca. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Thomas Roche
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 50,5 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 : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1508827680

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The Complete Canzoniere by Petrarch Pdf

Author : Francesco Petrarca
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 48,6 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.

Author : Francesco Petrarca
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 49,8 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,James Wyatt Cook
Publisher : Mrts
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0866981926

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Petrarch's Songbook by Francesco Petrarca,James Wyatt Cook Pdf

"Petrarch's Canzoniere is a body of 366 poems, mostly sonnets but including forms such as madrigals and canzoni. These wonderful poems marked the intellectual and cultural divide between the Middle Ages and the Italian Renaissance. Cook's translation, a splendid poetic work in its own right, ""elegantly combining grace and accuracy... ranks among the best."" (K.V. Gouwens, UC-Santa Barbara). The translation, says Konrad Eisenbichler, ""captures the moods, tones, and variety of Petrarch's own verse. A truly remarkable feat."" Cook addresses the deceptive simplicity of Petrarch's vocabulary, the work's cultural context rendered here as broadly modern rather than facilely archaic, and the elegance of his poetic diction. The Italian text (ed. Gianfranco Contini) is printed on facing pages."

Author : Christopher Kleinhenz,Andrea Dini
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781603291750

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Approaches to Teaching Petrarch's Canzoniere and the Petrarchan Tradition by Christopher Kleinhenz,Andrea Dini Pdf

One of the most important authors of the Middle Ages, Petrarch occupies a complex position: historically, he is a medieval author, but, philosophically, he heralds humanism and the Renaissance. Teachers of Petrarch's Canzoniere and his formative influence on the canon of Western European poetry face particular challenges. Petrarch's poetic style brings together the classical tradition, Christianity, an exalted sense of poetic vocation, and an obsessive love for Laura during her life and after her death in ways that can seem at once very strange and--because of his style's immense influence--very familiar to students. This volume aims to meet the varied needs of instructors, whether they teach Petrarch in Italian or in translation, in surveys or in specialized courses, by providing a wealth of pedagogical approaches to Petrarch and his legacy. Part 1, "Materials," reviews the extensive bibliography on Petrarch and Petrarchism, covering editions and translations of the Canzoniere, secondary works, and music and other audiovisual and electronic resources. Part 2, "Approaches," opens with essays on teaching the Canzoniere and continues with essays on teaching the Petrarchan tradition. Some contributors use the design and structure of the Canzoniere as entryways into the work; others approach it through discussion of Petrarch's literary influences and subject matter or through the context of medieval Christianity and culture. The essays on Petrarchism map the poet's influence on the Italian lyric tradition as well as on other national literatures, including Spanish, French, English, and Russian.

Author : Francesco Petrarch,Peter Thornton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1909954330

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Petrarch's Canzoniere by Francesco Petrarch,Peter Thornton Pdf