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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Barolini, Teodolinda (Contribuidor), Barsella, Susanna (Contribuidor), Cachey, Theodore J. (Contribuidor), Carrai, Stefano (Contribuidor), Cherchi, Paolo (Contribuidor), Cracolici, Stefano (Contribuidor), Finotti, Fabio (Contribuidor), Kennedy, William J. (Contribuidor), Kircher, Timothy (Contribuidor), Kirkham, Victoria (Contribuidor, Editor ), Looney, Dennis (Contribuidor), Maggi, Armando (Contribuidor, Editor ), Marchesi, Simone (Contribuidor), Marsh, David (Contribuidor), Martinez, Ronald L. (Contribuidor), Matter, E. Ann (Contribuidor), Mazzotta, Giuseppe F. (Contribuidor), Steinberg, Justin (Contribuidor), Velli, Giuseppe (Contribuidor), Wallace, David (Contribuidor), Westwater, Lynn Lara (Contribuidor), Witt, Ronald G. (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2009]
Temas:
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
letter, sonnet, oratory, tract, poem, italy, literature, classics, neoclassicism, christianity, religion, history, middle ages, renaissance, self, time, memory, exclusion, roman empire, character, epic, humanism, coronation oration, courtier, court, politics, monarchy, books of things to be remembered, pastoral, solitude, homosexuality, sexuality, men, masculinity, homosocial, fortune, cosmology, philosophy, nonfiction.
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Bibliographical Forms and Abbreviations
  • Chronology of Petrarch's Life and Works Victoria Kirkham
  • A Life's Work
  • PART I. AN ENDURING VERNACULAR LEGACY
  • 1. The Self in the Labyrinth of Time (Rerum vulgarium fragmenta)
  • 2. The Poem of Memory (Triumphi)
  • 3. Petrarch's Damned Poetry and the Poetics of Exclusion (Rime disperse)
  • PART II. LITERARY DEBUT, LATIN HUMANISM, AND ORATIONS
  • 4. The Rebirth of the Romans as Models of Character (De viris illustribus)
  • 5. Petrarch's Philological Epic (Africa)
  • 6. The Beginnings of Humanistic Oratory: Petrarch's Coronation Oration (Collatio laureationis)
  • 7. Petrarch the Courtier: Five Public Speeches (Arenga facta Venecijs, Arringa facta Mediolani, Arenga facta in civitate Novarie, Collatio brevis coram Iohanne Francorum rege, Orazione per la seconda ambasceria veneziana)
  • 8. The Unforgettable Books of Things to Be Remembered (Rerum memorandarum libri)
  • PART III. CONTEMPLATIVE SERENITY
  • 9. Pastoral as Personal Mythology in History (Bucolicum carmen)
  • 10. "You Will Be My Solitude": Solitude as Prophecy (De vita solitaria)
  • 11. A Humanistic Approach to Religious Solitude (De otio religioso)
  • PART IV. JOURNEYS INTO THE SOUL
  • 12. The Burning Question: Crisis and Cosmology in the Secret (Secretum)
  • 13. Petrarch's Personal Psalms (Psalmi penitentiales)
  • 14. The Place of the Itinerarium (Itinerarium ad sepulchrum domini nostri Yhesu Christi)
  • PART V. LIFE'S TURBULENCE
  • 15. On the Two Faces of Fortune (De remediis utriusque fortune)
  • 16. The Art of Invective (Invective contra medicum)
  • 17. The Economy of Invective and a Man in the Middle (De sui ipsius et multorum ignorantia)
  • PART VI. PETRARCH THE EPISTLER
  • 18. A Poetic Journal (Epystole)
  • 19. The Book without a Name: Petrarch's Open Secret (Liber sine nomine)
  • 20. The Uncollected Poet (Lettere disperse)
  • 21. Petrarch's Epistolary Epic: Letters on Familiar Matters (Rerum familiarum libri)
  • 22. Letters of Old Age: Love between Men, Griselda, and Farewell to Letters (Rerum senilium libri)
  • 23. To Write As Another: The Testamentum (Testamentum)
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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