Petrarch and the classical tradition
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Lucretia: Heroine and not. Considerations on two recent studies on “onestade”. Lucretia’s suicide because of her rape has had contradictory interpretations over the centuries, seen at times as the sublime exemplum of virtue and at... more
In ‘Fam.’, xxiv 11, his letter in hexameters to Virgil, Petrarch addresses the classical poet interrogating him on his fate after death, whether he is in Avernum with the damned or in Elysium. But he also proposes a third, bolder... more
Il libro è incentrato sul colloquio filologico e interpretativo di Francesco Petrarca con le Tragoediae di Lucio Anneo Seneca e l'opera di Svetonio. Per quanto riguarda Seneca tragico, l'esame paleografico dei marginalia lasciati dal... more
Minotaurs & Geryons. The Symbolic Monsters of Violence & Fraud.
The Prison and the Bark. Platonic and Ovidian Traces in the Petrarch's "Canzoniere".
Dizziness and Enchantment. The Pain and thge Delirium of Womanly Love in Romantic Opera
The Prison and the Bark. Platonic and Ovidian Traces in the Petrarch's "Canzoniere".
Dizziness and Enchantment. The Pain and thge Delirium of Womanly Love in Romantic Opera
The article is devoted to the role of quotations as a tool to measure the impact of humanism on the example of letters of Piotr Wolfram – a Polish lawyer educated in Italy, participant of the Council of Constance, and ambitious official... more
Review essay on Petrarchism and the new Cambridge Companion to Petrarch
Ponendo l'accento sul carattere transtemporale dell'opera letteraria di Petrarca, nonché su tipico ondeggiare della coscienza petrarchesca non più radicata nella concezione del sapere medievale, ma disposta a testimoniarne la relatività,... more
The fable of Eros and Psyche is the most important source of the Griselda tale (Dec. X, 10), a tale that enjoyed wide circulation from Petrarch’s translation into Latin and Chaucer’s adaptation in his Clerk’s Tale as well as throughout... more
This paper analyses the use of the classical, as well the medieval, authors, in Petrarch’s Epystola I 1, 29-44 through the traditional tool of commentary ad versum and ad verbum. The commentary, also careful to language, style and... more