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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... poetry have been divided — Latin and prose interpreted by historians, and the vernacular and poetry interpreted by literary critics. Petrarch the plaintive lover is so familiar a figure that he has solidified into Petrarchism. Yet in ...
... poetry have been divided — Latin and prose interpreted by historians, and the vernacular and poetry interpreted by literary critics. Petrarch the plaintive lover is so familiar a figure that he has solidified into Petrarchism. Yet in ...
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... poetic presence that is autonomous . The poetry becomes " semiological idolatry . " 4 Petrarch the poet as irreligious , even idolatrous , is the legacy of an obsolete historiography that demarcated the Middle Ages and the Renaissance I ...
... poetic presence that is autonomous . The poetry becomes " semiological idolatry . " 4 Petrarch the poet as irreligious , even idolatrous , is the legacy of an obsolete historiography that demarcated the Middle Ages and the Renaissance I ...
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... poet may be sincere , but the piety of the Renaissance poet must be ironic . As Petrarch is precariously positioned ... poetry is legitimated by its interpretation as the inversion and perversion of sacred into secular values . This ...
... poet may be sincere , but the piety of the Renaissance poet must be ironic . As Petrarch is precariously positioned ... poetry is legitimated by its interpretation as the inversion and perversion of sacred into secular values . This ...
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... poetry as irreligious interprets the Rime sparse not in continuity with this poetics , or his other poetry , but in continuity with the De secreto conflictu mearum curarum , or Secre- tum , as if that were its prose version and ...
... poetry as irreligious interprets the Rime sparse not in continuity with this poetics , or his other poetry , but in continuity with the De secreto conflictu mearum curarum , or Secre- tum , as if that were its prose version and ...
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... poetry argue that Augustinus is a devil's advocate , a straw man , into whose mouth Petrarch inserts a polemic against art as carnal and therefore unchristian . And although criticism has assumed that the counsel of Augustinus is the ...
... poetry argue that Augustinus is a devil's advocate , a straw man , into whose mouth Petrarch inserts a polemic against art as carnal and therefore unchristian . And although criticism has assumed that the counsel of Augustinus is the ...
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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