The Worlds of Petrarch

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Medieval, Poetry, Continental European
Cover of the book The Worlds of Petrarch by Giuseppe Mazzotta, Duke University Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Giuseppe Mazzotta ISBN: 9780822382614
Publisher: Duke University Press Publication: October 20, 1993
Imprint: Duke University Press Books Language: English
Author: Giuseppe Mazzotta
ISBN: 9780822382614
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication: October 20, 1993
Imprint: Duke University Press Books
Language: English

At the center of Petrarch's vision, announcing a new way of seeing the world, was the individual, a sense of the self that would one day become the center of modernity as well. This self, however, seemed to be fragmented in Petrarch's work, divided among the worlds of philosophy, faith, and love of the classics, politics, art, and religion, of Italy, France, Greece, and Rome. In recent decades scholars have explored each of these worlds in depth. In this work, Giuseppe Mazzotta shows for the first time how all these fragmentary explorations relate to each other, how these separate worlds are part of a common vision.
Written in a clear and passionate style, The Worlds of Petrarch takes us into the politics of culture, the poetic imagination, into history and ethics, art and music, rhetoric and theology. With this encyclopedic strategy, Mazzotta is able to demonstrate that the self for Petrarch is not a unified whole but a unity of parts, and, at the same time, that culture emerges not from a consensus but from a conflict of ideas produced by opposition and dark passion. These conflicts, intrinsic to Petrarch's style of thought, lead Mazzotta to a powerful rethinking of the concepts of "fragments" and "unity" and, finally, to a new understanding of the relationship between them.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

At the center of Petrarch's vision, announcing a new way of seeing the world, was the individual, a sense of the self that would one day become the center of modernity as well. This self, however, seemed to be fragmented in Petrarch's work, divided among the worlds of philosophy, faith, and love of the classics, politics, art, and religion, of Italy, France, Greece, and Rome. In recent decades scholars have explored each of these worlds in depth. In this work, Giuseppe Mazzotta shows for the first time how all these fragmentary explorations relate to each other, how these separate worlds are part of a common vision.
Written in a clear and passionate style, The Worlds of Petrarch takes us into the politics of culture, the poetic imagination, into history and ethics, art and music, rhetoric and theology. With this encyclopedic strategy, Mazzotta is able to demonstrate that the self for Petrarch is not a unified whole but a unity of parts, and, at the same time, that culture emerges not from a consensus but from a conflict of ideas produced by opposition and dark passion. These conflicts, intrinsic to Petrarch's style of thought, lead Mazzotta to a powerful rethinking of the concepts of "fragments" and "unity" and, finally, to a new understanding of the relationship between them.

More books from Duke University Press

Cover of the book Infrastructure, Environment, and Life in the Anthropocene by Giuseppe Mazzotta
Cover of the book Body and Nation by Giuseppe Mazzotta
Cover of the book Working the Boundaries by Giuseppe Mazzotta
Cover of the book Untimely Bollywood by Giuseppe Mazzotta
Cover of the book Buying into the Regime by Giuseppe Mazzotta
Cover of the book Being Governor by Giuseppe Mazzotta
Cover of the book The Abyss of Representation by Giuseppe Mazzotta
Cover of the book The Space of Boredom by Giuseppe Mazzotta
Cover of the book The Land and the Loom by Giuseppe Mazzotta
Cover of the book Undoing Monogamy by Giuseppe Mazzotta
Cover of the book Who Counts? by Giuseppe Mazzotta
Cover of the book Gay Latino Studies by Giuseppe Mazzotta
Cover of the book Gut Feminism by Giuseppe Mazzotta
Cover of the book Criticism in the Borderlands by Giuseppe Mazzotta
Cover of the book Foundlings by Giuseppe Mazzotta
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy