Petrarch's 'Fragmenta': The Narrative and Theological Unity of 'Rerum vulgarium fragmenta'

✍ Scribed by Thomas E Peterson

Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Year: 2016
Tongue: English
Leaves: 341
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Building on recent Petrarch scholarship and broader studies of medieval poetics, poetic narrativity, and biblical intertextuality, Peterson conducts a rigorous examination of the Fragmenta’s poetic language.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction
1.
Historical Context and Poetic Form
2. Temporality and Desire (Rvf 22–100)
3.
The Language of Tears (Rvf 92–122)
4.
In fresca riva: Landscape and
History (Rvf 125–183)
5.
The Penitent Lover (Rvf 184–263)
6.
Songs of Grief and Lamentation
(Rvf 264–318)
7.
Songs of Consecration (Rvf 319–366)
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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