The Worlds of Petrarch

by Giuseppe Mazzotta and Gluseppe Mazzota

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822313960
• ISBN13: 9780822313960
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 9.0"