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基本説明
Covers all aspects of Petrarch's relations with Britain.
Full Description
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.
Contents
I : PETRARCH'S BRITAIN
1: Piero Boitani: Petrarch and the barbari Britanni
II: PETRARCH AND THE SELF
2: Jennifer Petrie: Petrarch solitarius
3: Zygmunt G. Baranski: The Ethics of Ignorance: Petrarch's Epicurus and Averroes and the Structures of the De Sui Ipsius et Aliorum Ignorantia
4: Jonathan Usher: Petrarch's Second (and Third) Death
III: PETRARCH IN DIALOGUE
5: Francesca Galligan: Poets and Heroes in Petrarch's Africa: Classical and Medieval Sources
6: Enrico Santangelo: Petrarch reading Dante: the Ascent of Mont Ventoux (Familiares IV.1)
7: John Took: Petrarch and Cino da Pistoia: A Moment in the Pre-history of the Canzoniere
IV: PETRARCHISM AND ANTIPETRARCHISM IN ITALY
8: Abigail Brundin: Petrarch and the Italian Reformation
9: Hilary Gatti: Petrarch, Sidney, Bruno
10: Diego Zancani: Renaissance Misogyny and the Rejection of Petrarch
11: Letizia Panizza: Impersonations of Laura in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Italy
V: PETRARCHISM: ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH CONNECTIONS
12: Michael Wyatt: Other Petrarchs in Early Modern England
13: Stephen Clucas: Thomas Watson's Hekatompathia and European Petrarchism
14: John Roe: The Comedy of Astrophil: Petrarchan Motifs in Sidney's Astrophil and Stella
15: Syrithe Pugh: Sidney, Spenser and Political Petrarchism
16: R. D. S. Jack: Petrarch and the Scottish Renaissance Sonnet
VI: PETRARCH AND THE MODERNS: ITALY AND BRITAIN
17: Pamela Williams: Leopardi and Petrarch
18: Ela Tandello: Between Tradition and Transgression: Amelia Rosselli's Petrarch
19: Martin McLaughlin: Nineteenth-century British Biographies of Petrarch
20: Peter Hainsworth: Translating Petrarch
