Published in his second poetry volume, Ouids Banquet of Sence (1595), George Chapman’s “A Coronet for His Mistresse Philosophie” is often read as a sequel to the volume’s title piece. By attending to ...Chapman’s controversial dialogue with the Petrarchan lyric tradition in the England of his time, to his commitment to a didactic aestheticism that defends poetry’s enlightening powers, and to his preoccupation with proportional form, the present essay claims for this miniature sequence an autonomous status as a practical poetics. Chapman’s crown of sonnets—the first English instance of this form—is a programmatic defense of the amatory lyric as an instrument that warrants poetry’s dedication to the search for knowledge.
The collective mind often attributes the image of a modern Latin classroom to a teacher writing on a chalkboard in front of students eagerly memorising the declensions in silence. However, as part of ...their search for innovative and effective practices, Latin instructors have consistently expanded their gaze beyond the traditional parameters of rote memorisation for at least since the pioneering efforts of W.H.D. Rouse, looking to more innovative models presented by novel methods for inspiration and to the halls of predecessors in hopes of fostering a more engaging learning environment. Upon close comparative study between the modern pedagogical methods in Latin classrooms and the perspective of Renaissance scholar Petrarch, this study identified a commonality between the two: emphasis on dialogue between different members of the classroom and personal interpretations of preceding authors’ works for a better opportunity of comprehending the content. Grounded in the philosophies of the Socratic method, Petrarch claimed that an important element of the tradition of pedagogy finds expression in dialogues, imitation, and the significance of fully comprehending the topic in pursuit of wisdom. Likewise, many institutions of the U.K. and the United States, strengthened by the emergence of dialectic assessment applications during the Covid-19 Pandemic, are working towards a new norm in place. After conducting an in-depth interpretation of primary and secondary sources regarding Petrarch's pedagogy, as well as research of its modern developments and the applications, the comparison suggests a new direction for the Classics community to consider going forward.
Whoso List to Find? Mazzola, Elizabeth
Critical survey (Oxford, England),
03/2022, Letnik:
34, Številka:
1
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Seeing what Englishwomen saw in the early modern period brings them into view in a variety of new ways, many of them managed and enhanced by the machinery of cheap print. In contrast with Petrarchan ...poetry, which imagined women with fear and described love as plague, print established other models of health and wellness, and other ways of registering women’s powers. Women known as searchers who were charged to enter houses and locate plague rather than flee from it shared their findings with town officials who printed up statistics in weekly
Bills of Mortality
. The searcher was both a ‘harbinger of disaster’ and a tool of recovery, and popular ballads of the time frequently deploy her example along with her abilities to avoid ruin and register signs of life. These ballads supply alternatives to Petrarchan demographics, and I examine the ways early modern female poets draw upon their methodology, too.
Pismo Sokratu je prvo in naslovno pismo Petrarkove prve zbirke proznih pisem v latinščini z izvirnim naslovom Rerum familiarium libri. Vanjo je vključenih 350 pisem, spisanih med letoma 1325 in 1366. ...Petrarka se jih je odločil povezati v enotno zbirko leta 1345, ko je v knjižnici veronske katedrale odkril korpus Ciceronovih Pisem Atiku. Ta in Senekova Pisma Luciliju so ga vzpodbudila k izdaji podobne zbirke, sprva osnovane kot nabor nasvetov za vsakdanje življenje, premišljeno razsejanih po pismih različnim naslovnikom. Njihova tematika je raznolika, skladno z vsebino pa so raznoliki tudi pisemski naslovniki.
Love's Woundstakes an in-depth look at the widespread language of violence and abjection in early modern European love poetry. Beginning in fourteenth-century Italy, this book shows how Petrarch ...established a pattern of inequality between suffering poet and exalted Beloved rooted in political parrhēsia. Sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century French and English poets reshaped his model into an idiom of extravagant brutality coded to their own historical circumstances. Cynthia N. Nazarian argues that these poets exaggerated the posture of the downtrodden lover, adapting the rhetoric of powerless desire to forge a new "countersovereignty" from within the heart of vulnerability-a potentially revolutionary position through which to challenge cultural, religious, and political authority. Creating a secular equivalent to the martyr, early modern sonneteers crafted a voice that was both critical and unstoppable because it suffered.
Love's Woundstracks the development of the countersovereign voice from Francesco Petrarca to Maurice Scève, Joachim du Bellay, Théodore-Agrippa d'Aubigné, Edmund Spenser, and William Shakespeare. Through interdisciplinary and transnational analyses, Nazarian reads early modern sonnets as sites of contestation and collaboration and rewrites the relationship between early modern literary forms.
A vast majority of Latin texts available to us have been written after the Middle Ages. These writings are very diverse, culturally relevant, and interesting for linguistic research. Yet, this is not ...reflected in the scholarly attention given to post–medieval Latin. The research dealing with it is neither systematic nor up to date with the modern theoretical and methodological advances in linguistics. As nearly all linguists interested in Latin limit their investigations to the classical and medieval periods, the vast bulk of the texts written in Latin is severely under–researched. In this paper it is argued that the marginal position of post–medieval Latin in the research is caused by the preservation of traditional paths of work and that it is not tenable on the grounds of valid scientifi c reasoning. First, a definition of Neo–Latin is presented and the quantity of its texts is compared to the size of the ancient Latin literature. Then, a quantitative meta–analysis of several major publications in the fields of Latin linguistics and Neo–Latin studies is performed in order to determine the presence of linguistic research of Neo–Latin in them. In the following section, some important reasons why it is under–represented are singled out and contextualised within linguistic methodology and the history of the classical studies. By questioning their validity, a case is made for a full and consistent integration of the linguistic research of Neo–Latin into Latin linguistics.
In the initial scene of his Annales, Ennius recounted a dream vision in which Homer declared him to be his reincarnation. Since the poem is a history of Rome in verse, the symbolic message of this ...pretentious claim is clearly related to the imperialistic politics of the Roman state in the Mediterranean during the first half of the 2nd century BC. Ennius linked his own literary ambition to the prospects of Rome as a world power and of Latin as an international language of culture. Petrarch took up the topos of Homer as a spiritual guide of Latin poets claiming to an ‘imperial’ mission and staged Ennius as a literary character who invents on the battlefield of the war against Hannibal his encounter with Homer as a prophet of Petrarch’s Africa and of a new era of literature in Latin. After an appraisal of Petrarch’s reinvention of historical epic in Latin as a vehicle of political and literary imperialism, the article outlines two futher significant moments of the later development of the topos: Andreas Divus, the mysterious author of the first printed translation of Homer, and Ezra Pound who saw Divus as one of the fathers of modern poetry ante litteram.
In The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Rape of Lucrece and Titus Andronicus, Shakespeare responds to the cult of Petrarchism in Elizabethan England, exploring the darker reaches of Petrarchan devotion ...by way of creating demonic incarnations of the Petrarchan lover whose idealisation of their mistresses takes an extreme, sexual form, catalysing intimately invasive action such as rape or attempted rape. Through an attentive reading of the Petrarchan topoi used by the characters in these texts, this article argues that Shakespeare endeavoured to criticise the idealising force of Petrarchism by revealing its violent potential.
Tomando como punto de partida la presencia de textos poéticos de Pietro Aretino en las antologías italianas de Rime y Stanze petrarquistas publicadas en Venecia desde 1545 (y paralelamente en los ...seis libros de sus Lettere, 1538-1557), casi todos de encomio o retratos, se sigue el hilo de la relación que el influyente polígrafo estableció con Carlos V, prodigándose en una labor de propagandista que fue determinante a la hora de elaborar la imagen del emperador, que llegaría a su perfección en los retratos hechos por Ticiano. Concluyen el trabajo algunas consideraciones sobre la censura inquisitorial que recayó sobre Aretino desde 1557 condenándolo a la damnatio memoriæ, y por contra su presencia en La Gloria de Ticiano (1554), último retrato de Carlos V en adoración de la Santísima Trinidad.
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