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 tradition, creating a new kind of lyric poetry. In
particular, he found solutions to the intellectual, linguistic and
imaginative problems which Dante's Divine Comedy posed for the
succeeding generation of poets. Petrarch the Poet illumines the
complexities of Petrarch's poetic vision, which is simultaneously a
form of autobiographical narrative, a poetic encyclopaedia and a
meditation on the nature of poetry. The book will appeal to Italian
specialists, to those interested in European poetry of the Middle
Ages and the Renaissance, and also to readers interested generally
in the nature and function of poetry.
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