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Cambridge companion to petrarch biography

          Part I sets forth an intellectual and cultural biography of Petrarch organized around the crucial dates, places, and activities of his life....

          Part I sets forth an intellectual and cultural biography of Petrarch organized around the crucial dates, places, and activities of his life, while.

        1. Part I sets forth an intellectual and cultural biography of Petrarch organized around the crucial dates, places, and activities of his life, while.
        2. The Cambridge Companion to Petrarch - November 1 For Petrarch's biography, see Wilkins, Life of Petrarch, as well as Ugo Dotti, Vita di Petrarca.
        3. Part I sets forth an intellectual and cultural biography of Petrarch organized around the crucial dates, places, and activities of his life.
        4. The writer, Giovanni Boccaccio, became Petrarch's closest friend of later life, a protégé and a support to the poet during his old age.
        5. Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca, –), best known for his influential collec- tion of Italian lyric poetry dedicated to his beloved Laura.

          6. The Cambridge Companion to Petrarch

          the cambridge companion to petrarch Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca, 1304–1374), best known for his influential collection of Italian lyric poetry dedicated to his beloved Laura, was also a remarkable classical scholar, a deeply religious thinker, and a philosopher of secular ethics.

          In this wide-ranging study, chapters by leading scholars view Petrarch’s life through his works, from the epic Africa to the “Letter to Posterity,” from the Canzoniere to the vernacular epic Triumphi. Petrarch is revealed as the heir to the converging influences of classical cultural and medieval Christianity, but also to his great vernacular precursor, Dante, and his friend, collaborator, and sly critic, Boccaccio.

          Particular attention is given to Petrach’s profound influence on the Humanist movement and on the courtly cult of vernacular love poetry, while raising important questions as to the validity of the distinction between medieval and modern, and what is lost in