04711nam 2200649 a 450 991082495940332120200520144314.01-282-23968-697866122396870-226-43743-410.7208/9780226437439(CKB)1000000000773703(EBL)448513(OCoLC)434595810(SSID)ssj0000220453(PQKBManifestationID)12042596(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000220453(PQKBWorkID)10143691(PQKB)10782236(SSID)ssj0000777734(PQKBManifestationID)12387423(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000777734(PQKBWorkID)10755690(PQKB)11712945(MiAaPQ)EBC448513(DE-B1597)522718(DE-B1597)9780226437439(Au-PeEL)EBL448513(CaPaEBR)ebr10317868(CaONFJC)MIL223968(EXLCZ)99100000000077370320081016d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPetrarch a critical guide to the complete works /edited by Victoria Kirkham and Armando Maggi1st ed.Chicago University of Chicago Pressc20091 online resource (568 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-226-43742-6 0-226-43741-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Part 1. An enduring vernacular legacy. The self in the labyrinth of time (Rerum vulgarium fragmenta) / Teodolinda Barolini ; The poem of memory (Triumphi) / Fabio Finotti ; Petrarch's damned poetry and the poetics of exclusion (Rime disperse) / Justin Steinberg -- Part 2. Literary debut, latin humanism, and orations. The rebirth of the Romans as models of character (De viris illustribus) / Ronald G. Witt ; Petrarch's philological epic (Africa) / Simone Marchesi ; The beginnings of humanistic oratory: Petrarch's Collatio laureationis / Dennis Looney ; Petrarch the courtier: five public speeches (Arenga facta venecijs, Arringa facta Mediolani, Arenga facta in civitate Novarie, Collatio brevis coram Iohanne Francorum rege, Orazione per la seconda ambasceria veneziana) / Victoria Kirkham ; The unforgettable books of things to be remembered (Rerum memorandarum libri) / Paolo Cherchi -- Part 3. Contemplative serenity. Pastoral as personal history (Bucolicum carmen) / Stefano Carrai -- "You will be my solitude": solitude as prophecy (De vita solitaria) / Armando Maggi ; A humanistic approach to religious solitude (De otio religioso) / Susanna Barsella -- Part 4. Journeys into the soul. The burning question: crisis and cosmology in the secret (Secretum) / David Marsh ; Petrarch's personal psalms (Psalmi penitentiales) / E. Ann Matter ; The place of the itinerarium (Itinerarium ad sepulchrum domini nostri Yhesu Christi) / Theodore J. Cachey Jr. -- Part 5. Life's turbulence. On the two faces of fortune (De remediis utriusque fortunae) / Timothy Kircher ; The art of invective (Invective contra medicum) / Stefano Cracolici ; The economy of invective and a man in the middle (De sui ipsius et multorum ignorantia) / William J. Kennedy -- Part 6. Petrarch the epistler. A poetic journal (Epystole) / Giuseppe Velli ; The book without a name: Petrarch's open secret (Liber sine nomine) / Ronald L. Martinez ; The uncollected poet (Lettere disperse) / Lynn Laura Westwater ; Petrarch's epistolary epic: letters on familiar matters (Rerum familiarum libri) / Giuseppe F. Mazzotta ; Letters of old age: love between men, Griselde, and farewell to letters (Rerum senilium libri) / David Wallace -- Epilogue. To write as another: the testamentum (Testamentum) / Armando Maggi.Although Francesco Petrarca (1304-74) is best known today for cementing the sonnet's place in literary history, he was also a philosopher, historian, orator, and one of the foremost classical scholars of his age. Petrarch: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works is the only comprehensive, single-volume source to which anyone-scholar, student, or general reader-can turn for information on each of Petrarch's works, its place in the poet's oeuvre, and a critical exposition of its defining features. A sophisticated but accessible handbook that illuminates851/.1Kirkham Victoria482098Maggi Armando969806MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910824959403321Petrarch4012212UNINA