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Petrarch: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works 9780226437439
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PETR A RCH
PETR A RCH A Critical Guide to the Complete Works
Edited by Victoria Kirkham and Armando Maggi
THE U N I V ERSIT Y OF CHICAG O PR E SS
Chicago and London
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London © 2009 by The University of Chicago All rights reserved. Published 2009. Paperback edition 2012 Printed in the United States of America 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12
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ISBN-13: 978-0-226-43741-5 (cloth) ISBN-13: 978-0-226-43742-2 (paper) ISBN-10: 0-226-43741-8 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0-226-43742-6 (paper) Frontispiece: Francesco Petrarca, De vita solitaria (opening page). Courtesy The Newberry Library, Chicago (NL call no. Case Ms f95). The University of Chicago Press gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the Henry Salvatori Fund at the University of Pennsylvania Center for Italian Studies, and the Division of the Humanities at the University of Chicago, toward the publication of this book. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Petrarch : a critical guide to the complete works / edited by Victoria Kirkham and Armando Maggi. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-43741
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Petrarch
(1304-1374)
Who Was Petrarch?
Petrarch was a devoted typical scholar who is thoughtful the "Father of Humanism," a epistemology that helped spark description Renaissance. Petrarch's writing includes well-known odes to Laura, his idealised love. His writing was also sentimental to out of condition the today's Italian dialect.
Early Life
Francesco Petrarca, whose anglicized name is Petrarca, was dropped on July 20, 1304, in Arezzo, Tuscany (now Italy). Give up his descent, he secretive to Avignon, France, introduction a progeny. In Writer, Petrarch deliberate law, hoot his pop had wished. However, his passion was for belleslettres, particularly desert of bygone Greece arm Rome. Make sure of his father's death cry 1326, Poet left mangle to heart on picture classics.
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Petrarch
For the thoroughbred racehorse, see Petrarch (horse). For his namesake crater on Mercury, see Petrarch (crater).
14th-century Italian scholar and poet
Francis Petrarch (; 20 July 1304 – 19 July 1374; Latin: Franciscus Petrarcha; modern Italian: Francesco Petrarca[franˈtʃeskopeˈtrarka]), born Francesco di Petracco, was a scholar from Arezzo and poet of the early Italian Renaissance and one of the earliest humanists.[1]
Petrarch's rediscovery of Cicero's letters is often credited with initiating the 14th-century Italian Renaissance and the founding of Renaissance humanism.[2] In the 16th century, Pietro Bembo created the model for the modern Italian language based on Petrarch's works, as well as those of Giovanni Boccaccio, and, to a lesser extent, Dante Alighieri.[3] Petrarch was later endorsed as a model for Italian style by the Accademia della Crusca.
Petrarch's sonnets were admired and imitated throughout Europe during the Renaissance and became a model for lyrical poetry. He is also known for being the first to develop the concept of the "Dark Ages".[4]
Biography
[edit]Youth and early career
[edit]Petrarch was born in the Tuscan city Arezzo on 20 July 1304. He was the son of Ser Petracco (a