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Petrarch the Poet (Routledge Revivals): An Introduction to the 'Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta'

Petrarch the Poet (Routledge Revivals): An Introduction to the 'Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta'

Hainsworth, Peter

Paperback

Series: Routledge Revivals

Literary CriticismPoetry CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0415740460
ISBN13: 9780415740463
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 5 2015
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.53 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

In this critical and historical interpretation of Petrarch's major Italian work, Peter Hainsworth presents Petrarch as a poet of outstanding sophistication and seriousness. In the Rerum vulgarium fragmenta Petrarch reformed the received Italian tradition, and found solutions to the intellectual, linguistic and imaginative problems which Dante's Divine Comedy posed for the succeeding generation of poets. Petrarch the Poet illumines the complexities of Petrarch's poetic vision, which is simultaneously a form of autobiographical narrative, a poetic encyclopaedia and a meditation on the nature of poetry. The book will appeal to Italian specialists, to those interested in European poetry of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

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