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 first time how all these
fragmentary explorations relate to each other, how these separate
worlds are part of a common vision.
Written in a clear and passionate style, "The Worlds of Petrarch"
takes us into the politics of culture, the poetic imagination, into
history and ethics, art and music, rhetoric and theology. With this
encyclopedic strategy, Mazzotta is able to demonstrate that the
self for Petrarch is not a unified whole but a unity of parts, and,
at the same time, that culture emerges not from a consensus but
from a conflict of ideas produced by opposition and dark passion.
These conflicts, intrinsic to Petrarch's style of thought, lead
Mazzotta to a powerful rethinking of the concepts of "fragments"
and "unity" and, finally, to a new understanding of the
relationship between them.
Essential to students of Medieval and Renaissance literature, this
book will engage anyone interested in the development of modernity
as it has evolved in culture and is understood today.
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