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Pages: 392
Pages: 392
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03-02 - Publisher: BRILL
Despite the high regard in which Francesco Petrarca (1304-74) held St. Augustine, scholars have been inclined to view Augustine’s impact on the content of Pet
Language: en
Pages: 393
Pages: 393
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03-02 - Publisher: BRILL
Challenging the familiar view of Francesco Petrarca as the ‘father of humanism’, this book offers a comprehensive re-interpretation of Petrarch’s debt to
Language: en
Pages: 312
Pages: 312
Type: BOOK - Published: 1989 - Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
A trilogy of dialogues in Latin written by Petrarch sometime from 1347 to 1353, in which he examines his faith with the help of Saint Augustine, and "in the pre
Language: en
Pages: 260
Pages: 260
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Rereading the Renaissance - a study of Petrarch's uses of Augustine - uses methods drawn from history and literary criticism to establish a framework for explor
Language: en
Pages: 304
Pages: 304
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-06-13 - Publisher: Harvard University Press
Petrarch was the leading spirit in the Renaissance movement to revive literary Latin, the language of the Roman Empire, and Greco-Roman culture in general. My S
