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Petrarch's Genius: Pentimento and Prophecy »
Authors: Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle
ISBN-13: 9780520072930, ISBN-10: 0520072936
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: October 1991
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle
Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle is the author of three books on Erasmus: Erasmus on Language and Method in Theology (Toronto 1977), Christian Pagan Mysteries (Toronto 1981), and Rhetoric and Reform (Harvard 1983).
Book Synopsis
"This is a brilliant, original, and extraordinarily learned book that should have a major impact on all serious future Petrarch studies."—Charles Trinkaus, author of The Poet as Philosopher
Table of Contents
| Introduction | 1 | |
| 1. | Hail, True Apollo! | 11 |
| 2. | The Sylvan Citizen | 44 |
| 3. | The Babylonian Captive | 74 |
| 4. | Wounded Lovers | 113 |
| Epilogue | 153 | |
| Notes | 159 | |
| Primary Sources | 207 | |
| Index of Petrarch's Works | 213 | |
| Index of Names | 214 |
Subjects
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Literary Criticism Italian Literature
Fiction Books & Literature Literary Criticism Poetry - Literary Criticism
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