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Petrarchan Love and the Continental Renaissance (Paperback)
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Petrarchan Love and the Continental Renaissance (Paperback)
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The 366 lyrics of Petrarch's Canzoniere exert a unique influence in
literary history. From the mid-fifteenth century to the early
seventeenth, the poems are imitated in every major language of
western Europe, and for a time they provide Renaissance Europe with
an almost exclusive sense of what love poetry should be. In this
stimulating look at the international phenomenon of Petrarch's
poetry, Gordon Braden focuses on materials in languages other than
English-Italian, French, and Spanish, with brief citations from
Croatian and Cypriot Greek, among others. Braden closely examines
Petrarch's theme of love for an impossible object of desire, a
theme that captivated and inspired across centuries, societies, and
languages. The book opens with a fresh interpretation of Petrarch's
sequence, in which Braden defines the poet's innovations in the
context of his predecessors, Dante and the troubadours. The author
then examines how Petrarchan predispositions affect various strains
of Renaissance literature: prose narrative, verse narrative, and,
primarily, lyric poetry. In the final chapter, Braden turns to the
poetry of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz to demonstrate a sophisticated
case of Petrarchism taken to one of its extremes within the walls
of a convent in seventeenth-century Mexico.
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