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<p>A comprehensive new reading of Petrarch's lyric collection known as the <em>Canzoniere</em> or <em>Rime sparse</em>, the work that stands at the origins of the dominant tradition of European Renaissance poetry. Unlike many other considerations of Petrarch's poetry, this study takes into account through close reading the vast majority of the 366 poems included in the collection. At the same time it adopts a range of intertextual perspectives. It emphasizes the position of the <em>Rime</em> within Petrarch's own varied literary corpus and in relation to his precursors both classical and vernacular.</p> <p>New insights emerge into his transgressions and evasions of the primary Ovidian myth in the collection, into his engagement with Dante, and into his adaptation of the motifs of the romance quest. Sturm-Maddox also explores Petrarch's creation of a personal myth of poetic origins, one centered in Valchiusa as the locus of an amorous epiphany, and in the shade of the laurel as the locus of the production of <em>Rime sparse</em>. Ample notes complement the text, and English translations translations of the Italian poetry are included</p>

Author

Sara Sturm-maddox

Publisher

The Pennsylvania State University Press

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780271008226

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Romance, Humanities