Petrarch: The First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters

by Francesco Petrarca, James Harvey Robinson, Henry Winchester Rolfe

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The purpose of this volume is essentially historical. It is not a piece of literary criticism; it is only incidentally a biography. It has been prepared with the single but lively hope of making a little clearer the development of modern culture. It views Petrarch not as a poet, nor even, primarily, as a many-sided man of genius, but as the mirror of his age - a mirror in which are reflected all the momentous contrasts between waning Medievalism and...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:141020992X

ISBN13:9781410209924

Release Date:December 2003

Publisher:University Press of the Pacific

Length:452 Pages

Weight:1.08 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 5.1" x 8.1"

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Biographical Biographies Biographies & History Biography & History History Literary Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Literature & Fiction

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