The Worlds of Petrarch

by Giuseppe Mazzotta

At the center of Petrarch's vision, announcing a new way of seeing the world, was the individual, a sense of the self that would one day become the center of modernity as well. This self, however, seemed to be fragmented in Petrarch's work, divided among the worlds of philosophy, faith, and love of the classics, politics, art, and religion, of Italy, France, Greece, and Rome. In recent decades scholars have explored each of these worlds in depth. In this work, Giuseppe Mazzotta shows for the fir

Genres: Poetry, Continental European

ISBN: 9780822382614

252 pages

Published: 1993-10-20

Publisher: Duke University Press Books

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