Petrarch's Genius: Pentimento and ProphecyUniversity of California Press, 2023 M04 28 - 224 pages Marjorie Boyle is the first theologian to write about Petrarch the poet as theologian. With her extraordinarily broad and deep knowledge of the theological, historical, and literary contexts of her subject, she presents an entirely original and revisionary account of Petrarch's literary career. Petrarch, she argues, has been misunderstood by the division of his literary enterprise into two sides—Petrarch the poet, Petrarch the humanist reformer—studied by literary critics and historians respectively. Boyle demonstrates that the division is artificial, that the two sides are part of the same prophetic mission. Petrarch's Genius is an important book that deserves to be read by all Petrarch scholars—theologians as well as literary critics and historians. |
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... literature requires for its interpretation a sophistication in its moral topicality , regressing to the fraternal paradigm of Cain and Abel , who offered different religious sacrifices , vegetable and animal . The his- torical evidence ...
... literature requires for its interpretation a sophistication in its moral topicality , regressing to the fraternal paradigm of Cain and Abel , who offered different religious sacrifices , vegetable and animal . The his- torical evidence ...
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... literature that provides the con- text of the " gold and topaz " in the poem : the fundamental artistic debate concerning material and skill . What is the correct coloring of images ? How to represent the aesthetic light ? Reason argues ...
... literature that provides the con- text of the " gold and topaz " in the poem : the fundamental artistic debate concerning material and skill . What is the correct coloring of images ? How to represent the aesthetic light ? Reason argues ...
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... literature with painting and sculp- ture was a topic of classical rhetoric . In Petrarch's imitation it was axiomatic and prescriptive , a prototype of the humanist habit.29 His idolo is a sculpture : " my image carved in living laurel ...
... literature with painting and sculp- ture was a topic of classical rhetoric . In Petrarch's imitation it was axiomatic and prescriptive , a prototype of the humanist habit.29 His idolo is a sculpture : " my image carved in living laurel ...
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... literatures . The quality of Petrarch's poetic image is aesthetic vividness not religious perversion : " my image carved in ... literature . As an ornament its achievement was the greatest of all rhetorical gifts . As en - argeia means a ...
... literatures . The quality of Petrarch's poetic image is aesthetic vividness not religious perversion : " my image carved in ... literature . As an ornament its achievement was the greatest of all rhetorical gifts . As en - argeia means a ...
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... literature , 42 to integrate the standard division of labor by which critics read the poetry and historians the prose , so as to promote better collaboration between the disciplines . Although the emergent portrait may vary from that of ...
... literature , 42 to integrate the standard division of labor by which critics read the poetry and historians the prose , so as to promote better collaboration between the disciplines . Although the emergent portrait may vary from that of ...
Contents
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Hail True Apollo | 11 |
The Sylvan Citizen | 44 |
The Babylonian Captive | 74 |
Wounded Lovers | 113 |
Epilogue | 153 |
Notes | 159 |
Primary Sources | 207 |
Index of Petrarchs Works | 213 |
Index of Names | 214 |
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