The Worlds of Petrarch

Autorentext

Giuseppe Mazzotta

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"A richly textured, deeply learned, and broadly inclusive study of Petrarch's writing, his historical situation, and his contribution to our own cultural formation."--William Kennedy, Cornell University

Inhalt

Acknowledgments ix
Note on Petrarch's Texts xiii
Introduction 1
I. Antiquity and the New Arts 14
II. The Thought of Love 33
III. The Canzoniere and the Language of the Self 58
IV. Ethics of Self 80
V. The World of History 102
VI. Orpheus: Rhetoric and Music 129
VII. Humanism and Monastic Spirituality 147
Appendix 1: Petrarch's Song 126 167
Appendix 2: Ambivalence of Power 181
Notes 193
Index 223