Petrarchs Secretum

Author : Francesco Petrarca
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Petrarch's Secretum written by Francesco Petrarca and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1989 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A trilogy of dialogues in Latin written by Petrarch sometime from 1347 to 1353, in which he examines his faith with the help of Saint Augustine, and "in the presence of The Lady Truth".

Author : Francesco Petrarca
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674003462
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Secret Book written by Francesco Petrarca and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-13 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Petrarch was the leading spirit in the Renaissance movement to revive literary Latin, the language of the Roman Empire, and Greco-Roman culture in general. My Secret Book reveals a remarkable self-awareness as he probes and evaluates the springs of his own morally dubious addictions to fame and love.

Author : Anita Obermeier
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004456147
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History and Anatomy of Auctorial Self-Criticism in the European Middle Ages written by Anita Obermeier and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-12-28 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study outlines the history and anatomy of the European apology tradition from the sixth century BCE to 1500 for the first time. The study examines the vernacular and Latin tales, lyrics, epics, and prose compositions of Arabic, English, French, German, Greek, Icelandic, Italian, Spanish, and Welsh authors. Three different strands of the apology tradition can be proposed. The first and most pervasive strand features apologies to pagan deities and-later-to God. The second most important strand contains literary apologies made to an earthly audience, usually of women. A third strand occurs more rarely and contains apologies for varying literary offenses that are directed to a more general audience. The medieval theory of language privileges an imitation of the Christian master narrative and a hierarchical medieval view of authorship. These notions express a medieval philosophical concern about language and its role, and therefore the role of the author, in cosmic history. Despite the fact that women apologize for different purposes and reasons, their examples illustrate, on yet another level, the antifeminist subtext inherent in the entire apology tradition. Overall, the apology tradition characterized by interauctoriality, intertextuality, and intratextuality, enables self-critical authors to refer not only backward but also-primarily-forward, making the medieval apology a progressive strategy that engenders new literature. This study would be relevant to all medievalists, especially those interested in literature and the history of ideas.

Author : Francesco Petrarca
Publisher : Alma Classics
ISBN 13 : 9781847491596
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secretum written by Francesco Petrarca and published by Alma Classics. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Marketing Blurb

Author : Gur Zak
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521114675
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Petrarch's Humanism and the Care of the Self written by Gur Zak and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-17 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Gur Zak examines two central issues in Petrarch's works - his humanist philosophy and his concept of the self.

Author : Petrarch
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1624661998
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Essential Petrarch written by Petrarch and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Petrarch fashioned so many different versions of himself for posterity that it is an exacting task to establish where one might start to explore. . . . Hainsworth's study meets this problem through examples of what Petrarch wrote, and does so decisively and succinctly. . . . [A] careful and unpretentious book, penetrating in its organization and treatment of its subject, gentle in its guidance of the reader, nimble and dexterous in its scholarly infrastructure—and no less profound for those qualities of lightness. The translations themselves are a delight, and are clearly the result of profound meditation and extensive experiment. . . . The Introduction and the notes to each work form a clear plexus of support for the reader, with a host of deft cross-references. --Richard Mackenny, Binghamton University, State University of New York

Author : Christopher S. Celenza
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780238770
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Petrarch written by Christopher S. Celenza and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2022-08-22 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enlightening study of the contradictory character of this canonical fourteenth-century Italian poet. Born in Tuscany in 1304, Italian poet Francesco Petrarca is widely considered one of the fathers of the modern Italian language. Though his writings inspired the humanist movement and subsequently the Renaissance, Petrarch remains misunderstood. He was a man of contradictions—a Roman pagan devotee and a devout Christian, a lover of friendship and sociability, yet intensely private. In this biography, Christopher S. Celenza revisits Petrarch’s life and work for the first time in decades, considering how the scholar’s reputation and identity have changed since his death in 1374. He brings to light Petrarch’s unrequited love for his poetic muse, the anti-institutional attitude he developed as he sought a path to modernity by looking backward to antiquity, and his endless focus on himself. Drawing on both Petrarch’s Italian and Latin writings, this is a revealing portrait of a figure of paradoxes: a man of mystique, historical importance, and endless fascination. It is the only book on Petrarch suitable for students, general readers, and scholars alike.

Author : Carol E. Quillen
Publisher : Bedford/St. Martin's
ISBN 13 : 9780312154387
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret written by Carol E. Quillen and published by Bedford/St. Martin's. This book was released on 2003-02-26 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the great poets of the 14th century, Italian scholar Francesco Petrarch is also regarded as the father of the humanist movement. The Secret, Petrarch’s autobiographical treatise translated here from the Latin, represents a "humanist manifesto" central to understanding European culture during the early modern period. Carol Quillen’s introductory essay to this volume illuminates the development of humanist practices, Petrarch’s role in the dissemination of humanist ideas, the importance of The Secret as a humanist text, and the enduring historical significance of the humanist tradition in Western thought and culture. Also included are several illustrations, a chronology, a selected bibliography, and questions for consideration.

Author : Francesco Petrarca
Publisher : Early English Text Society Ori
ISBN 13 : 9780198828334
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Middle English Translation from Petrarch's Secretum written by Francesco Petrarca and published by Early English Text Society Ori. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This previously unpublished verse translation of Book 1 of Petrarch's Secretum, or 'secret book', is a landmark in the history of English humanism. It is only the third work by Petrarch to be translated into English, and is the most accurate and extensive translation of his work before the 1530's. -- The Secretum is a dialogue between Franciscus and Augustinus (fictionalized versions of Petrarch himself and St. Augustine). It is presided over by Veritas, or Truth personified. The dialogue is a confessional account of Petrarch's personality and its weaknesses, prompted by reflection on old age and death. The work owes much to Augustine's Confessions and also draws upon Cicero and other classical writers. -- The anonymous translator, who may have been associated with Winchester Cathedral Priory, shows his familiarity with Chaucerian verse traditions, and he renders his source with poietic invention and skill. -- This new edition contains an introduction, with full discussion of the translation's manuscript context, and its place in English humanist traditions. The detailed explanatory notes describe the translator's treatment of his source and the inventiveness of his vocabulary.

Author : Igor Candido
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110419580
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Petrarch and Boccaccio written by Igor Candido and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early modern and modern cultural world in the West would be unthinkable without Petrarch and Boccaccio. Despite this fact, there is still no scholarly contribution entirely devoted to analysing their intellectual revolution. Internationally renowned scholars are invited to discuss and rethink the historical, intellectual, and literary roles of Petrarch and Boccaccio between the great model of Dante’s encyclopedia and the ideas of a double or multifaceted culture in the era of Italian Renaissance Humanism. In his lyrical poems and Latin treatises, Petrarch created a cultural pattern that was both Christian and Classical, exercising immense influence on the Western World in the centuries to come. Boccaccio translated this pattern into his own vernacular narratives and erudite works, ultimately claiming as his own achievement the reconstructed unity of the Ancient Greek and Latin world in his contemporary age. The volume reconsiders Petrarch’s and Boccaccio’s heritages from different perspectives (philosophy, theology, history, philology, paleography, literature, theory), and investigates how these heritages shaped the cultural transition between the end of the Middle Ages and the early modern era, as well as European identity.