1st Edition
Petrarch the Poet (Routledge Revivals) An Introduction to the 'Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta'
By Peter Hainsworth
Copyright 1988
252 Pages
by
Routledge
252 Pages
by
Routledge
252 Pages
by
Routledge
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In this critical and historical interpretation of Petrarch’s major Italian work, the collection of poems he called the Rerum vulgarium fagmenta , Peter Hainsworth presents Petrarch as a poet of outstanding sophistication and seriousness, occupied with issues which are still central to debates about poetry and language.
In the Rerum vulgarium fragmenta Petrarch reformed the received Italian... Read more
Preface; Abbreviations 1. Introduction 2. Composition 3. Structure 4. The Tradition 5. Themes 6. Art; Bibliographical notes; Bibliography; Principal references to individual poems in the RVF; Name Index
Biography
Hainsworth, Peter
