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Griselda Between Boccaccio and Petrarch

Italica, 2020
The focus of the paper is Petrarch's Latin translation of Boccaccio's Griselda, the last tale of the last day of the Decameron (X, x). The translation became popular in Europe and was eventually adapted by Chaucer in his “Clerk's Tale.” Petrarch's ...
M. Verdicchio
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Mirrors of Commentary: Renaissance Exegesis of Petrarch’s Rerum vulgarium fragmenta

, 2020
The exegetical trope of ‘commentaries as mirrors of a text’ lends itself to vast diversification. In approaching classical texts Petrarch deployed contrasting modes of cross-reference exemplified by Servius, and of interpretation in bono and in malo ...
W. Kennedy
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Education and the good life: Petrarch’s insights and the current research on well-being

, 2020
According to Petrarch, the main goal of the liberal arts is to help us live a good life and become wise, virtuous, and serene. This is also something achieved via true Christian faith. In this paper, my goal is twofold. First, I review Petrarch’s general
L. Radenović
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Petrarch Goes West: Translation and the Literary Canon

Italian Studies, 2017
Anne O'Connor
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From Fire in the Eye to the Eye of War: A Media Theory of Laura's Gaze in Petrarch's Canzoniere

International Conference on Machine Learning for Networking
:This article traces the development of the gaze by closely analyzing the Medusa myth in Ovid's Metamorphoses and in Petrarch's appropriation of Medusa in his representations of Laura in Canzoniere 179 and 197.
L. Tuan
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Petrarch

2021
Il contributo analizza l'uso del De civitate Dei di Agostino nella produzione di Francesco Petrarca e nelle annotazioni autografe depositate sui libri della sua biblioteca.
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Petrarch

Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy, 2011
A. Kamp
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Petrarch

1999
The definitive bilingual verse translation of Petrarch’s Canzoniere.
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Invectives against ignoramuses: Petrarch and the defense of humanist eloquence

Review of Communication, 2019
Francesco Petrarch was a pioneering figure not only in the study of the humanities, but also in the defense of the humanities. A prolific writer and avid reader of the classics, particularly of the historians, rhetoricians, and poets, Petrarch cleared ...
Nathan Crick
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From Petrarch to Petrarchism: A Rhetoric of Voice and Address

2012
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