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Petrarch: Everywhere a Wanderer (Renaissance Lives) - Softcover

Buch 17 von 28: Renaissance Lives

Celenza, Christopher S.

 
9781789146738: Petrarch: Everywhere a Wanderer (Renaissance Lives)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1789146739 ISBN 13: 9781789146738
Verlag: Reaktion Books, 2022

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An enlightening study of the contradictory character of this canonical fourteenth-century Italian poet.

Born in Tuscany in 1304, Italian poet Francesco Petrarca is widely considered one of the fathers of the modern Italian language. Though his writings inspired the humanist movement and subsequently the Renaissance, Petrarch remains misunderstood. He was a man of contradictions—a Roman pagan devotee and a devout Christian, a lover of friendship and sociability, yet intensely private.

In this biography, Christopher S. Celenza revisits Petrarch’s life and work for the first time in decades, considering how the scholar’s reputation and identity have changed since his death in 1374. He brings to light Petrarch’s unrequited love for his poetic muse, the anti-institutional attitude he developed as he sought a path to modernity by looking backward to antiquity, and his endless focus on himself. Drawing on both Petrarch’s Italian and Latin writings, this is a revealing portrait of a figure of paradoxes: a man of mystique, historical importance, and endless fascination. It is the only book on Petrarch suitable for students, general readers, and scholars alike.

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Christopher S. Celenza is dean of Georgetown College at Georgetown University.

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Verlag
Reaktion Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1789146739
ISBN 13 
9781789146738
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
263
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