... himself mentally in a time period where he will not feel so alienated. It is in this spirit that Petrarch writes his letters to Cicero and other classical authors, expressing his longing to live in the time of these kindred spirits. For Friedrich Nietzsche, it is precisely because someone like Petrarch...

...Jean-Claude Carron William J. Kennedy , The Site of Petrarchism: Early Modern National Sentiment in Italy, France, and England . Baltimore and London : The Johns Hopkins University Press , 2003 . Pp. xiv + 383. Copyright © 2006 The Trustees of Columbia University 2006 114 BOOK...

... dispossession with Petrarch’s idea of solitude, this essay examines solitary presence as a musicopoetic art form across various vernacular traditions, from the Occitan works of Bernart de Ventadorn, William IX, and Arnaut Daniel to lyrics of the Iberian Peninsula, including the Mozarabic kharja (final stanzas...

... and Literatures, 2009. Pp. 780. First accounts of Petrarch's "reputaci6" in the Crown of Aragon date from almost the same time as the first extant Iberian copies of his Latin worksthe late fourteenth century. By that time, Petrarch's Latin writings also were beginning to be adapted in the Iberian vernaculars...

... manuscript has four, as do the other editions of Ilicino's commentary that were published between 1478 and 1500. While philologically questionable, Recio's edition makes an important document about the dissemination of Petrarch's works in the Crown of Aragon accessible to scholars of Petrarch's vernacular...

... Library MS 428. 1 A striking example of the tension between a zealous search for an original form and the attempts to classify early witnesses into specific groups is the case of Petrarch’s songbook Rerum vulgarium fragmenta . As partial holograph and as the latest extant authorial witness...

... Nevertheless, Freud's assertion would have come as a surprise to sixteenth-century readers, who were accustomed to an eroticized Medusa, a figure so prevalent in French and Italian love poetry that she had become a cliche of the genre. Following Petrarch's celebrated depiction of Laura as Medusa in the Rime...

... Petrarca] Petrarch . Le Familiari , edited by Rossi Vittorio and Bosco Umberto . 4 vols. Florence : Sansoni , 1933 – 42 . [Francesco Petrarca] Petrarch . Letters on Familiar Matters; Rerum familiarum libri , translated by Bernardo Aldo S. . 3 vols. Albany : SUNY...

...: Petrarchism, Neoplatonism, and the Opportunism of 1536 Neither Sceve's literary career nor his awareness of Marot's grandeur originated in 1536. Nearly four years before Marot traversed the Alps, returned to grace in the kingdom, and was received into the bosom of France's intellectual and poetic elite...

..." thesis-the belief that a "life-changing encounter" (xxx) with Petrarch transformed the scribbler of vernacular romances, pastoral poems, and quaint etiologies into an erudite proto-humanist. While this view (introduced, perhaps, by G. Tiraboschi in his early nineteenth-century biography of Boccaccio) has...

... in the Poetry of Louise Labe," The French Review 43 (1970): 588-96; Daniel L. Martin, "Les Elegies de Louise Labe: Le Faix d'amour et Ie faix de l'ecriture," Etudes Litteraires 27 (1994): 39-52 (especially 47-51); and Andrea Chan, "Petrarchism and Neoplatonism in Louise Labe's Concept of Happiness," Australian...

... did his homework before he began his version of this painful story. He ascertained that Giovanni Boccaccio (1313 ?-1375) had composed it as the hundredth, and final, story of his Decameron (1353), and he learned that Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374) had subsequently translated it into Latin, although...

... of Petrarchism: Early Modern National Senti- ment in Italy, France, and England (William J. Kennedy), 114-7 Cesaretti, Enrico, "Dyspesia)~ as Dystopia? Marinetti's Le Roi Bombance," 353-69 Chiesa, Laura, "Italo Calvino and Georges Perec: the Multiple and Contrast- ing Emotions of Cities and Puzzles," 401-21...

... work by Marc Bizer and Hassan Melehy, studies scalar tensions in Joachim du Bellay's Olive, Regrets, and Deffence, especially the multiple ways in which the poet's native Anjou articulates Frenchness in opposition to Petrarch's Italy-via an "erotic cartography" (55) in the Olive and in more complex...

...: Seuil, 2015. Kennedy, William J. Petrarchism at Work: Contextual Economies in the Age of Shakespeare. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2016. Kolb, Katherine, and Armine Kotin Mortimer, eds. Proust en perspective: visions et revisions. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2015. The Romanic Review Volume 106 Numbers 1-4 ©...

... of the Ohio. Trans. Alan J. Singerman. University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 2017. De Looze, Laurence. The Letter and the Cosmos: How the Alphabet Has Shaped the Western View of the World. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2016. Feng, Aileen A. Writing Beloveds: Humanist Petrarchism and the Politics of Gender...

... companions. For example, in Basile's tale Lo scarafone, 10 sorece e 10 grillo (1IL5), the narrator Popa uses verses plucked from Petrarch's canzoniere are to describe the diarhetic excess of a drunken German. This playful and irreverent recycling of one of the pillars of the Italian literary canon closely...

..., but with a question that could in this form also be asked hy the critical Sophia: "Donques c'estoit Ie hut de ta malice/ De m'asservir sous ombre de service?"38 It is not only that Louise Labe writes against Petrarch and Plato, throwing off their burden and comfort,39 but her literary kinship to the fashionable texts...

..., Petrarch, and the ballad tradition in his own voice? On the whole, I think not It is certainly true that media has changed over the centuries, yet the process of inspiration and artistic creation appears remarkably similar" (226). This excellent collection of essays enjoys several distinctions. Timely...

... age represents the first and more relevant model of the pastoral novel that was to be imitated by several European writers. The author conceived of the Arcadia as a learned combination of different sources, in particular Petrarch's Canzoniere and Virgil. 5 Sannazaro, "cultissimo i castigadissimo poeta...