Petrarch: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0226437418 ISBN 13: 9780226437415

Casa editrice: Univ of Chicago Pr, 2009

Riassunto

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, makingPetrarch an invaluable resource for specialists in Italian, comparative literature, history, classics, religious studies, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance.

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Victoria Kirkham is professor emerita of Romance languages at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of three books, most recently ofFabulous Vernacular: Boccaccio’s Filocolo and the Art of Medieval Fiction.Armando Maggi is professor of Romance languages and a member of the Committee on the History of Culture at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books, includingSatan’s Rhetoric and In the Company of Demons, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

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• Editore: Univ of Chicago Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0226437418
• ISBN 13: 9780226437415
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 542
• Redattore: Kirkham Victoria, Maggi Armando