Giuseppe Mazzotta

The Worlds of Petrarch

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Produktbeschreibung

"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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 1993
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 144mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 519g
• ISBN-13: 9780822313632
• ISBN-10: 0822313634
• Artikelnr.: 42990647

Autorenporträt

Giuseppe Mazzotta is Professor and Chair, Italian Language and Literature Department, Yale University. His is the author of Dante, Poet of the Desert, The World at Play, and Dante's Vision and the Circle of Knowledge.

Inhaltsangabe

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