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Petrarch's Laurels
Language: en
Pages: 328
Authors: Sara Sturm-Maddox
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-11-01 - Publisher: Penn State Press

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A comprehensive new reading of Petrarch's lyric collection known as the Canzoniere or Rime sparse, the work that stands at the origins of the dominant tradition
Petrarch's English Laurels, 1475-1700
Language: en
Pages: 598
Authors: Jackson Campbell Boswell
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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The powerful influence of Petrarch on the development of Renaissance vernacular poetry has long been recognized as one of the major factors in early modern cult
Sex and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Texts
Language: en
Pages: 348
Authors: Barbara K. Gold
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-01-01 - Publisher: SUNY Press

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Examines interrelated topics in Medieval and Renaissance Latin literature: the status of women as writers, the status of women as rhetorical figures, and the st
Petrarch's Humanism and the Care of the Self
Language: en
Pages: 191
Authors: Gur Zak
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-05-17 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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In this book, Gur Zak examines two central issues in Petrarch's works - his humanist philosophy and his concept of the self.
Approaches to Teaching Petrarch's Canzoniere and the Petrarchan Tradition
Language: en
Pages: 310
Authors: Christopher Kleinhenz
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-01-01 - Publisher: Modern Language Association

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One of the most important authors of the Middle Ages, Petrarch occupies a complex position: historically, he is a medieval author, but, philosophically, he hera