Petrarch's Africa - 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's Africa write by Francesco Petrarca. This book was released on 1977-01-01. Petrarch's Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Petrarch, Scipio and the "Africa"
Petrarch, Scipio and the "Africa" - 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, Scipio and the "Africa" write by Aldo S. Bernardo. This book was released on 1962. Petrarch, Scipio and the "Africa" available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Petrarch
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.
Petrarch's Genius
Petrarch's Genius - 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's Genius write by Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle. This book was released on 2023-04-28. Petrarch's Genius available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Marjorie Boyle is the first theologian to write about Petrarch the poet as theologian. With her extraordinarily broad and deep knowledge of the theological, historical, and literary contexts of her subject, she presents an entirely original and revisionary account of Petrarch's literary career. Petrarch, she argues, has been misunderstood by the division of his literary enterprise into two sides—Petrarch the poet, Petrarch the humanist reformer—studied by literary critics and historians respectively. Boyle demonstrates that the division is artificial, that the two sides are part of the same prophetic mission. Petrarch's Genius is an important book that deserves to be read by all Petrarch scholars—theologians as well as literary critics and historians.
Restorations of Empire in Africa
Restorations of Empire in Africa - 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 Restorations of Empire in Africa write by Samuel Agbamu. This book was released on 2024-03-13. Restorations of Empire in Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The histories of Europe and Africa are closely intertwined. At times, this closeness has been emphasized, at other times, suppressed and denied. Since the nineteenth century, European imperial powers have carved up the continent of Africa among themselves, drawing borders and charting shorelines; in the process, inventing Africa. This was a project anchored in ancient Greek and Roman representations of Africa. For Italy, colonialism in Africa was a matter of consolidating its project of national unification, nominally completed in 1870 with the capture of Rome. By asserting its position as an imperial power, the young nation of Italy hoped to join the club of European nation-states and, in so doing, be rid of the perception that it was a country somewhere in between Europe and Africa. Yet, Italy's colonial endeavour in Africa was also a project with deep historical meaning. Italy posed its imperial project in Africa as a national return to territory which was rightfully Italian. Italian ideologues of imperialism based this claim on the history of Roman history on the continent. When Italian soldiers disembarked on the beaches of Libya during Italy's invasion of 1911-1912, and came across the ruins of Roman imperialism, they were, according to prominent cultural and political figures in Italy, rediscovering the traces of their ancestors. Yet, when Italian imperial ambitions set their sights on East Africa, regions that had not been conquered by Rome, how could Italy nevertheless shape its imperial project in the image of ancient Rome? This book charts this story. Beginning with Italy's first imperial endeavours on the African continent in the last decades of the nineteenth century and continuing right through to Italy's current attitudes towards Africa, this book argues that empire in Africa was a central aspect of Italian nation-building, and that this was a project which anchored itself in memories of ancient Rome in Africa. Although Fascism's invasion of Ethiopia (1935-1936) is the best-known moment of Italian imperialism in Africa, this book shows that Italian imperialism, modelled on ancient Rome, has a history which long predates Mussolini's movement, and has a legacy which continues to be acutely felt.
