Organised around Petrarch's 'war' against the Ubaldini clan of 1349–1350, which formed the prelude to his meeting and friendship with Boccaccio, William Caferro's work examines the institutional and ...
Check if you have access via personal or institutional login Was Petrarch French? This book explores the various answers to that bold question offered by French readers and translators of Petrarch ...
Thanks to a major new grant, English professor Ramie Targoff will translate the work of Renaissance poet Francesco Petrarch into 12 different languages — including Japanese and Farsi — to probe the ...
While Petrarch's Canzoniere is an important source for Scève's Délie, both works are part of a long poetic lineage that includes Occitan troubadours. The book argues that the 'Petrarchan' label is ...
Petrarch died in 1374, but his poetry became the most widely publishedliterature of the Italian Renaissance. It was so popular that it inspired generations of poets, imitators known as "Petrarchists." ...