Petrarch's Laurels

by Sara Sturm-Maddox

A comprehensive new reading of Petrarch's lyric collection known as the Canzoniere or Rime sparse , 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271008229
• ISBN13: 9780271008226
• Release Date: August 1992
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 322 Pages