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This book's depth of detail, breadth of coverage, and consistently high level of critical analysis make it unparalleled in Anglophone Petrarch scholarship and indispensable to anyone seriously interested in this perennially fascinating poet and thinker. A must for collections in Italian studies, medieval and Renaissance culture, and comparative literature. (Choice)

"""This book's depth of detail, breadth of coverage, and consistently high level of critical analysis make it unparalleled in Anglophone Petrarch scholarship and indispensable to anyone seriously interested in this perennially fascinating poet and thinker. A must for collections in Italian studies, medieval and Renaissance culture, and comparative literature."" (Choice)"""

A book that every medievalist and early modernist will feel obliged to own. Much like the way Durling''s translation created a market for itself thirty years ago, Petrarch: A Critical Guide will deliver to us a new Petrarch, with many of the less familiar works reweighed in significance and even the principal ones freshly understood. Knowing the poet well, I was continually surprised at how much I learned from the essays. --Roland Greene, Stanford University <br> <br> <br> <br> <br>--Roland Greene (07/01/2008)

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"Victoria Kirkham is professor emerita of Romance languages at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of three books, most recently Fabulous Vernacular: Boccaccio's ""Filocolo"" and the Art of Medieval Fiction. Armando Maggi is professor of Romance languages and a member of the Committee on the History of Culture at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books, including Satan's Rhetoric and In the Company of Demons, both published by the University of Chicago Press."

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