The Cambridge Companion to Petrarch

Author:   Albert Russell Ascoli (University of California, Berkeley) ,  Unn Falkeid, PhD (Stockholms Universitet)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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9781107006140


Pages:   294
Publication Date:   26 November 2015
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Author:   Albert Russell Ascoli (University of California, Berkeley) ,  Unn Falkeid, PhD (Stockholms Universitet)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.560kg
ISBN:  

9781107006140


ISBN 10:   1107006147
Pages:   294
Publication Date:   26 November 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Chronology; Introduction Albert Russell Ascoli and Unn Falkeid; Part I. Lives of Petrarch: 1. Poetry in motion Theodore J. Cachey, Jr; 2. Petrarch and his friends Hannah Chapelle Wojciehowski; Part II. Petrarch's Works: Italian: 3. Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta: structure and narrative Peter Hainsworth; 4. Making the Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta Luca Marcozzi; 5. Petrarch's Singular Love Lyric Ullrich Langer; 6. The Triumphi Zygmunt G. Barański; Part III. Petrarch's Works: Latin: 7. The Latin hexameter works Ronald L. Martinez; 8. The defense of poetry in the Secretum Victoria Kahn; 9. De Vita Solitaria and De Otio Religioso: the perspective of the guest Unn Falkeid; 10. Epistolary Petrarch Albert Russell Ascoli; Part IV. Petrarch's Interlocutors: 11. Petrarch and the Ancients Gur Zak; 12. Petrarch and the vernacular Lyric past Olivia Holmes; 13. Petrarch's adversaries: the Invectives David Marsh; Part V. Petrarch's Afterlife: 14. Petrarch and the Humanists Timothy Kircher; 15. Bembo and Italian Petrarchism Stefano Jossa; 16. Female Petrarchists Ann Rosalind Jones; 17. Spanish, French, and English Petrarchism William J. Kennedy; Part VI. Conclusion: 18. Petrarch's confrontation with modernity Giuseppe Mazzotta; Guide to further reading.

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Albert Russell Ascoli is Gladyce Arata Terrill Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. His publications include Ariosto's Bitter Harmony: Crisis and Evasion in the Italian Renaissance (1987), Making and Remaking Italy: The Cultivation of National Identity around the Risorgimento (co-edited with Krystyna von Henneberg, 2001), Dante and the Making of a Modern Author (Cambridge, 2008) and A Local Habitation, and a Name: Imagining Histories in the Italian Renaissance (2011). He is co-founder and volume editor of the electronic journal, California Italian Studies. Unn Falkeid is Research Fellow at the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, affiliated to the Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University. She is the author of Petrarca og det moderne selvet (Petrarch and the Modern Self, 2007), the editor of Dante. A Critical Reappraisal (2008) and the co-editor of Rethinking Gaspara Stampa in the Canon of Renaissance Poetry (with Aileen A. Feng, 2015).

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