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Petrarch's English Laurels, 1475-1700 - A Compendium of Printed References and Allusions (Paperback)
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Petrarch's English Laurels, 1475-1700 - A Compendium of Printed References and Allusions (Paperback)
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The powerful influence of Petrarch on the development of
Renaissance vernacular poetry has long been recognized as one of
the major factors in early modern cultural history; this work
provides a far more comprehensive catalogue of the direct evidence
for that influence in England than any yet available. Following the
model of Boswell's Dante's Fame in England (1999), it offers an
itemized presentation, year by year, of printed citations,
translations, and allusions, with complete bibliographical
information, quotations of the relevant passages, and brief
commentary. The most fully studied aspect of Petrarch's influence,
his love poetry as a model for imitation, remains paramount: a
model by turns slavishly imitated, ruthlessly mocked, and
searchingly reworked, sometimes all at the same time. But the
significance of other aspects of his legacy are also documented,
with new fullness: notably his Latin prose works-especially his
encyclopedic moral treatise On the Remedies of Both Kinds of
Fortune, popular throughout the period-and his polemics against the
Avignon papacy, which earned him a strong reputation in England as
an angry moral prophet and champion of what would become the
Protestant cause. The picture here presented provides new texture
and complexity for any further discussion of Petrarch in the
English Renaissance.
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