Petrarchism at Work: Contextual Economies in the Age of Shakespeare

by William J. Kennedy Jr.

Book Overview

The Italian scholar and poet Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374) is best remembered today for vibrant and impassioned love poetry that helped to establish Italian as a literary language. Petrarch inspired later Renaissance writers, who produced an extraordinary body of work regarded today as perhaps the high-water mark of poetic productivity in the European West. These Petrarchan poets were self-consciously aware of themselves as poets--as craftsmen,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501700014
• ISBN13: 9781501700019
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher