Petrarch - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Petrarch write by Christopher S. Celenza. This book was released on 2022-08-22. Petrarch available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Canzoniere
Canzoniere - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Canzoniere write by Petrarch. This book was released on 2002-10-31. Canzoniere available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The 'Canzoniere', a sequence of sonnets and other verse forms, were written over a period of about 40 years. They describe Petrarch's intense love for Laura, whom he first met in Avignon in 1327, and her effect on him after she died in 1348. The collection is an examination of the poet's growing spiritual crisis, and also explores important contemporary issues such as the role of the papacy and religion.
Life of Petrarch
Life of Petrarch - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Life of Petrarch write by Thomas Campbell. This book was released on 1841. Life of Petrarch available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Life of Solitude
The Life of Solitude - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Life of Solitude write by Francesco Petrarca. This book was released on 1924. The Life of Solitude available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Poetry of Petrarch
The Poetry of Petrarch - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Poetry of Petrarch write by Petrarch. This book was released on 2014-06-03. The Poetry of Petrarch available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ineffable sweetness, bold, uncanny sweetness that came to my eyes from her lovely face; from that day on I'd willingly have closed them, never to gaze again at lesser beauties. --from Sonnet 116 Petrarch was born in Tuscany and grew up in the south of France. He lived his life in the service of the church, traveled widely, and during his lifetime was a revered, model man of letters. Petrarch's greatest gift to posterity was his Rime in vita e morta di Madonna Laura, the cycle of poems popularly known as his songbook. By turns full of wit, languor, and fawning, endlessly inventive, in a tightly composed yet ornate form they record their speaker's unrequited obsession with the woman named Laura. In the centuries after it was designed, the "Petrarchan sonnet," as it would be known, inspired the greatest love poets of the English language--from the times of Spenser and Shakespeare to our own. David Young's fresh, idiomatic version of Petrarch's poetry is the most readable and approachable that we have. In his skillful hands, Petrarch almost sounds like a poet out of our own tradition bringing the wheel of influence full circle.
