Kennedy, William J.
Authorizing Petrarch

Kennedy chronicles the process of Petrarch's canonization from the interpretive commentaries found in rare fifteenth- and sixteenth-century editions of Rime sparse through the imitative poetry of early modern writers in Italy, France, and England. The commentaries -each employing a different Petrarch to promote a different ideological paradigm - take a wide range of approaches to important contemporaneous issues relating to politics, class, religion, love, and gender relationships. XIII,301 Seiten, gebunden (Cornell University Press 1994) textsauberes Exemplar mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren, leicht berieben/clean text pages, minor traces of use, slightly rubbed