FFrancesco Petrarca (1304-1374) contribuyó de manera decisiva a la creación del concepto historiográfico de Edad Media, y a la consideración despectiva de estos siglos de la historia, en gran parte ...debido a su identificación con autores clásicos como Ennio, Cicerón y Tito Livio. El presente artículo centra la atención en las concepciones historiográficas que Petrarca revela en el poema en hexámetros titulado Africa, una obra insuficientemente estudiada pero que se revela fundamental a la hora de comprender tanto las tesis historiográficas del poeta toscano como la creación conceptual de la Edad Media oscura.
Afterword Petrarca, Francesco
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In at least two letters to Giovanni Boccaccio, Francesco Petrarca raised the issue of imitation and, more generally, of the way in which writers should manage their relationship with tradition. One ...such letter, from October 1359, is presented in an English translation by Aldo S. Bernardo.
...the travel account—combined with the author's painstaking postediting which included additions, directives to a future publisher about possible titles for the work, lists of days traveled, post ...stops, and expenses incurred—makes this journey unique among the many "voyages en Italie" produced by grand tourists in the eighteenth century. Sade clearly strove to elevate the travel account genre to include historical and moral reflections on Italian customs and institutions in the interest of reforming them, to which his proposed addition to the travel account, "Project for a Reform in Italy," attests. ...Sade, the Frenchman, followed in the distinguished footsteps of the members of his sixteenth-century compatriots Joachim Du Bellay and Pierre Ronsard. ...Sade feels overwhelmed by the naturalness of Italian excess, which contrasts sharply with the artificially planned and calculated excess of his own plots and desires.
Humanist scholars were not just concerned with education and literary style, but with a newpaideuma, "an intentional form of elite culture that seeks power within a society with the aim of altering ...moral attitudes and behaviors of societys members, especially its leadership class" (2). Each of these chapters engages with the historiographical work on the particular figure and on the topics they are associated with, for example, the interpretation of the history of the Roman republic and empire, constitutional theory, papal leadership, tyranny, economic order, and forms of the military. Hankins takes pains to be clear and deliberate in the development of the many historiographical discussions. Since this book's publication Hankins has written numerous semi-popular pieces elaborating the themes of the work and their applicability today in places like First Things, Law dr Liberty, and the Claremont Review of Books.
The author explains on xxv–xxvi how, in consultation with the board of The I Tatti Renaissance Library, she developed the plan of arranging the letters not chronologically but grouped under nine ...headings, such as “On His Letters” or “His Life and His World.” The event also had a tragicomic sequel when the large tome that Petrarch copied out by hand from the archetype and kept at the doorpost of his library repeatedly fell on him in such a way that he finally had to seek medical treatment (III 15.16–20). In these pages, we find not only Petrarch the zealous book collector and student of ancient texts, but also many interesting details about Petrarch the man, including the correspondence relating to his appointment to, and acceptance of, the poet laureateship (III 2–6) and his comments on topics of the times, such as the Black Death or the state of the Church and the papacy and his desire to see the latter return to Rome from Avignon (“the Babylon of the West,” as he called it).
What was John Lydgate, a Benedictine monk and author of orthodox religious poems, doing translating pagan histories like the Troy Book and Siege of Thebes^ In his late autobiographical poem the ...'Testament of Dan John Lydgate', Lydgate explores whether Christian practice was compatible with humanist reading of classical or pagan texts.1 He does this by engaging with Augustine's Confessions and Petrarch's Secretum, taking some of each writer's approach to reading and memory in order to justify ways in which it was acceptable to read classical or pagan literature. In the 'Testament' he applies Augustine's theory of memory in an unorthodox Petrarchan way in order to establish his own active reading approach and explain the value in humanist texts. 1. Augustines "Confessions' Augustine's 'influence on the literature of the Middle Ages is pervasive' and there was an Augustinian revival' in the later Middle Ages.6 Lydgate had access to the Confessions, amongst many other Augustine texts, in Bury St Edmunds abbey library, Duke Humfrey's collection, and probably in numerous other places.7 The most obvious allusion to the text in the 'Testament' is Lydgate's description of stealing apples and grapes as a child (lines 638-40), considered an allusion to Augustine's theft of pears (Il.iv).8 Whilst the allusion is undoubted, it merits greater caution. Nisse thinks this significant because it was the age that St Edmund died; but it is also likely a reference to the frequent plagues that hit East Anglia and perhaps to a specific incident in Lydgate's life.12 Lydgate imitates Augustine in stating that some texts are more valid to read than others, and in regretting his childhood reading tastes.
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El interés de Giovanni Boccaccio por los clásicos se acrecienta cuando conoce personalmente a Francesco Petrarca. La relación con el maestro/amigo lo lleva a escribir sus obras latinas y sobre ...todo--a profundizar la búsqueda de manuscritos, lo que le permite redescubrir obras presuntamente perdidas. De esta manera, participa en el desarrollo del fenómeno humanístico en italia, que da inicio a la cultura renacentista europea. Palabras clave: Giovanni Boccaccio--Francesco Petrarca--literatura latina medieval--biografías de hombres y mujeres célebres--mitografía Giovanni Boccacio growth his interest on classics when meets Francesco Petrarca personally. The master/friend relationship guides him to write his latin works, and more importantly, go deeper on manuscripts researching. This allows him to rediscover works that were allegedly lost. Thus, he participates in the phenom of italian humanistic development, that gives birth to european Renaissance culture. Keywords: Giovanni Boccacio--Francesco Petrarca--Medieval latin literature--Famous men and women biographies'--mythography
Who during the Renaissance could have dissented from the values of reason and restraint, patience and humility, rejection of the worldly and the physical? These widely articulated values were part of ...the inherited Christian tradition and were reinforced by key elements in the Renaissance, especially the revival of Stoicism and Platonism. This book is devoted to those who did dissent from them.Richard Strier reveals that many long-recognized major texts did question the most traditional values and uncovers a Renaissance far more bumptious and affirmative than much recent scholarship has allowed. The Unrepentant Renaissance counters the prevalent view of the period as dominated by the regulation of bodies and passions, aiming to reclaim the Renaissance as an era happily churning with surprising, worldly, and self - assertive energies. Reviving the perspective of Jacob Burckhardt and Nietzsche, Strier provides fresh and uninhibited readings of texts by Petrarch, More, Shakespeare, Ignatius Loyola, Montaigne, Descartes, and Milton. Strier's lively argument will stir debate throughout the field of Renaissance studies.
