Worlds of Petrarch

"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

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Giuseppe Mazzotta, Mazzotta, Giuseppe Mazzotta
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780822313632
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-1363-2
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Duke Monographs in Medieval an; Duke Monographs in Medieval and Renaissance Studies; Duke Monographs in Medieval an; Duke Monographs in Medieval & Renaissance Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies