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Petrarch in Britain - Interpreters, Imitators, and Translators over 700 years (Hardcover, New)
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Petrarch in Britain - Interpreters, Imitators, and Translators over 700 years (Hardcover, New)
Series: Proceedings of the British Academy 146, 146
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Petrarch was Italy's second most famous writer (after Dante), and
indeed from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries he was much
better known and more influential in English literature than Dante.
His Italian love lyrics constituted the major influence on European
love poetry for at least two centuries from 1400 to 1600, and in
Britain he was imitated by Chaucer, the Elizabethans, and other
lyric poets up until the end of the eighteenth century. With
Romanticism Dante ousted Petrarch from his pre-eminent position,
but in our post-Romantic age, attention has now started to swing
back to Petrarch.
This volume is the most comprehensive and up to date survey of
Petrarch's literary legacy in Britain. Starting with his own views
of those whom he called the "barbari Britanni," the volume then
explores a number of key topics: Petrarch's analysis of the self;
his dialogue with other classical and Italian authors; Petrarchism
and anti-Petrarchism in Renaissance Italy; Petrarchism in England
and Scotland; and Petrarch's modern legacy in both Italy and
Britain. Many important texts and poets are considered, including
Giordano Bruno, Leopardi, Foscolo, Ascham, Sidney, Spenser, and
Walter Savage Landor.
The twenty chapters collected here are written by major scholars
of Petrarch in the UK and Italy and will be essential reading for
scholars and students of both Italian and British literature, as
well as comparative literature.
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