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      Italian StudiesPetrarch StudiesPetrarchItalian Literature
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
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      Dante StudiesCIvic HumanismItalian LiteratureMachiavelli
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      Medieval LiteratureRenaissance HumanismPetrarch StudiesPetrarch
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      Latin LiteratureTextual CriticismManuscript StudiesPetrarch
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
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      Dante StudiesItalian StudiesRenaissance StudiesPetrarch Studies
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      Petrarch StudiesPetrarchDante, Petrarch, BocaccioPetrarchism
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Die Renaissance verehrt von den Schriften Petrarcas vor allem die «verstreuten Fragmente seiner Seele» - die Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta - mit einem leidenschaftlichen Kult. Das Werk erzählt die Geschichte der zerreissenden Leidenschaft... more
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      Cultural HistoryCultural StudiesFrench LiteraturePrint Culture
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
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      PetrarchThe Classical TraditionClassical Reception StudiesSeneca's Tragedies
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
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      Dante StudiesPetrarchDante and the ancient commentaries traditionGiuseppe Verdi
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      PhilologyPetrarchVitruviusCodicology of medieval manuscripts
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      PhilologyLiteraturePetrarchItalian Humanism
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
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      RhetoricRenaissance HumanismManuscript StudiesPetrarch
Review essay on Petrarchism and the new Cambridge Companion to Petrarch
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      Petrarch StudiesPetrarchPetrarchismPetrarch and the classical tradition
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
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      Italian StudiesPetrarch StudiesPetrarchItalian Literature
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
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      Medieval StudiesPetrarch StudiesPetrarchApuleius
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
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      PetrarchPetrarch and the classical traditionPetrarch's Epystole
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      Petrarch StudiesPetrarchItalian LiteratureItalian Renaissance literature