The Essential Petrarch

Author : Petrarch
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 50,8 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 : Victoria Kirkham,Armando Maggi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 41,9 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 : Christopher S. Celenza
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,8 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 : Jennifer Rushworth
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780198790877

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Discourses of Mourning in Dante, Petrarch, and Proust by Jennifer Rushworth Pdf

This work brings together three authors who have written movingly about mourning : Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarca, and Marcel Proust. Jennifer Rushworth explores how each of them, through their respective narratives of bereavement, grapples with the challenge of how to write adequately about the deeply personal and painful experience of grief.

Author : Igor Candido
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 47,8 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 : Lord Byron
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 2703 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : EAN:8596547721529

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The Essential Works of Lord Byron by Lord Byron Pdf

DigiCat presents to you this unique collection of the greatest works written by Lord Byron. This carefully crafted and meticulously edited collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Hours of Idleness: To George, Earl Delawarr Damœtas To Marion Oscar of Alva Translation from Anacreon From Anacreon The Episode of Nisus and Euryalus Translation from the Medea of Euripides Lachin y Gair To Romance The Death of Calmar and Orla To Edward Noel Long, Esq To a Lady English Bards and Scotch Reviewers The Giaour: A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The Bride of Abydos: A Turkish Tale The Corsair: A Tale Lara Hebrew Melodies: She walks in Beauty The Harp the Monarch Minstrel swept If that High World The Wild Gazelle Oh! weep for those On Jordan's Banks Jeptha's Daughter Oh! snatched away in Beauty's Bloom My Soul is Dark I saw thee weep Thy Days are done Saul Song of Saul before his Last Battle "All is Vanity, saith the Preacher" When Coldness wraps this Suffering Clay Vision of Belshazzar Sun of the Sleepless! Were my Bosom as False as thou deem'st it to be Herod's Lament for Mariamne On the Day of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus By the Rivers of Babylon we sat down and wept "By the Waters of Babylon" The Destruction of Sennacherib A Spirit passed before me The Siege of Corinth Parisina The Prisoner of Chillon The Dream Darkness Prometheus Manfred: A Dramatic Poem The Lament of Tasso Beppo: A Venetian Story Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Don Juan Mazeppa The Prophecy of Dante Marino Faliero The Vision of Judgment Sardanapalus: A Tragedy The Two Foscari: An Historical Tragedy Cain: A Mystery Heaven and Earth; A Mystery Werner; or, The Inheritance: A Tragedy The Deformed Transformed: A Drama The Age of Bronze; or, Carmen Seculare et Annus haud Mirabilis The Island; or, Christian and his Comrades Biographies: Byron by John Nichol The Life of Lord Byron by John Galt

Author : Aldo S. Bernardo
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1974-06-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780791496565

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Petrarch, Laura, and the Triumphs by Aldo S. Bernardo Pdf

Author : Carol E. Quillen
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0472107356

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Rereading the Renaissance by Carol E. Quillen Pdf

Rereading the Renaissance - a study of Petrarch's uses of Augustine - uses methods drawn from history and literary criticism to establish a framework for exploring Petrarch's humanism. Carol Everhart Quillen argues that the essential role of Augustine's words and authority in the expression of Petrarch's humanism is best grasped through a study of the complex textual practices exemplified in the writings of both men. She also maintains that Petrarch's appropriation of Augustine's words is only intelligible in light of his struggle to legitimate his cultural ideals in the face of compelling opposition. Finally, Quillen shows how Petrarch's uses of Augustine can simultaneously uphold his humanist ideals and challenge the legitimacy of the assumptions on which those ideals were founded.

Author : Giuseppe Mazzotta
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1993-10-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0822313960

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The Worlds of Petrarch by Giuseppe Mazzotta Pdf

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. Essential to students of Medieval and Renaissance literature, this book will engage anyone interested in the development of modernity as it has evolved in culture and is understood today.

Author : Teodolinda Barolini,H. Wayne Storey
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047422884

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Petrarch and the Textual Origins of Interpretation by Teodolinda Barolini,H. Wayne Storey Pdf

This volume addresses a far-reaching aspects of Petrarch research and interpretation: the essential interplay between Petrarch’s texts and their material preparation and reception. To read and interpret Petrarch we must come to grips with the fundamentals of Petrarchan philology.

Author : Demetrio S. Yocum
Publisher : Brepols Pub
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 2503544193

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Petrarch's Humanist Writing and Carthusian Monasticism by Demetrio S. Yocum Pdf

Of the long line of renowned and anti-scholastic intellectuals who were attracted to Carthusian circles, Petrarch was undoubtedly the first. By revealing the Carthusian imprint on Petrarch's thought as well as elements of Carthusian spirituality present in his texts, this book argues that Carthusianism was an essential component of Petrarch's Christian humanism and hermeneutics of the self.

Author : Oxford University Press
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199809400

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Petrarch: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide by Oxford University Press Pdf

This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of Islamic studies find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult and editorial commentary to make it clear how the cited sources are interrelated related. This ebook is a static version of an article from Oxford Bibliographies Online: Renaissance and Reformation, a dynamic, continuously updated, online resource designed to provide authoritative guidance through scholarship and other materials relevant to the study of European history and culture between the 14th and 17th centuries. Oxford Bibliographies Online covers most subject disciplines within the social science and humanities, for more information visit www.oxfordbibliographies.com.

Author : John Humphreys Whitfield
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Humanism
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Petrarch and the Renascence by John Humphreys Whitfield Pdf

Author : Francesco Petrarca
Publisher : Alma Classics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Dialogues, Latin (Medieval and modern)
ISBN : 1847491596

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Secretum by Francesco Petrarca Pdf

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Author : Gur Zak
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521114677

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Petrarch's Humanism and the Care of the Self by Gur Zak Pdf

In this book, Gur Zak examines two central issues in Petrarch's works - his humanist philosophy and his concept of the self.