Author: Petrarch
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: books, fyfield, canzoniere
Number of Pages: 335
Published: 2002-09-13
List price: $20.95
ISBN-10: 041594242X
ISBN-13: 9780415942423

of Petrarch (1304 74) is among Europe’s most famous and influential books of lyrics. The focus of this large collection (7,500 lines) is Petrarch’s love for the mysterious Laura, but the themes he treats are many and various. One of the first modern men to emerge from a medieval world, he remains modern in his perplexities and uncertainties, in the hesitancies and diffidence he reveals, and paradoxically, with assured artistry. J.G. Nichols brings out his obsessive passion, but also his wit and serious humor.

Authors:Victoria Kirkham, Armando Maggi,
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: works, complete, guide, critical, petrarch
Number of Pages: 568
Published: 2009-08-01
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0226437418
ISBN-13: 9780226437415

Although Francesco Petrarca (1304–1374) is best known today for his Italian poetry, 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 cultur

Authors:Mark Musa, Francesco Petrarca, Barbara Manfredi,
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Keywords: fragmenta, vulgarium, rerum, canzoniere, petrarch
Number of Pages: 800
Published: 1999-04-01
List price: $35.95
ISBN-10: 0253213177
ISBN-13: 9780253213174

"Mark Musa, in editing and translating Petrarch’s Canzoniere, has performed a wonderful service to the English-speaking reader. Here, in one volume, are included the poet’s own selection of the best lyric verse he wrote throughout his life, accompanied by brief but useful notes... " -- Chronicles"As well as skillful and fluent verse renderings of the 366 lyrics that make up this milestone in the development of Western poetic tradition, Musa offers copious and up-to-date annotation

Author: Carol Everhart Quillen
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: later, latin, texts, contexts, recentiores, humanism, renaissance, petrarch, augustine, language, rereading
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 1998-11-15
List price: $80.00
ISBN-10: 0472107356
ISBN-13: 9780472107353

Although Francesco Petrarca’s position as the "father" of Italian Renaissance humanism has long been acknowledged, the specific meanings of his works and his legacy remain matters of controversy. Basic questions about the tension between his devotion to secular pursuits and his respect for religious withdrawal, about the authenticity of his ostensibly autobiographical writings, and about his relationship to scholasticism still provoke sustained debate. Rereading the Renaissance, a study of Petrarch’s uses of Augustine, uses methods drawn from history and literary criticism to estab

Author: Francesco Petrarca
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Keywords: fortune, translation, remediis, utriusque, english, commentary, modern, remedies, fair, foul, petrarch
Number of Pages: 5
Published: 1991-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0253348447
ISBN-13: 9780253348449

"... historical lore and tales of virtue, rascality and wonder from ancient and medieval times. Conrad H. Rawski... gives us a translation that is muscular, graceful and suggestive of Petrarch’s Latin style... Anyone who can get to a library that can afford this work will find a great old world filled with humor, folly, failure and glory, all suffused with an eloquent and gentle wisdom." -- New York Times Book Review"... reveals much about the life situation, the external hazards and the inner moral dilemmas of European society... The translation itself is accurate, strong and pungent."