Petrarch - Further Reading

FURTHER READING

Biography

Wilkins, Ernest H. Life of Petrarch. Chicago: Phoenix Books/ University of Chicago Press, 1961, 276 p.

Standard biography of Petrarch.

Criticism

Mazzotta, Giuseppe. "Humanism and Monastic Spirituality in Petrarch." Stanford Literature Review 5, Nos. 1-2 (1988): 57-74.

Discusses Petrarch's ideas on asceticism, secular humanism, and spirituality, focusing on Petrarch's De vita solitaria and De otio religioso as well as his relationship with his brother Gherardo, who was a monk.

Prier, Raymond. "The Figurai Ontology of the Text: Petrarch." In Interpreting the Italian Renaissance: Literary Perspectives, edited by Antonio Toscano, pp. 1-8. Stony Brook: Forum Italicum, 1991.

Compares the figural poetics of Dante and Petrarch. Prier concludes that "Petrarch experiences a figura within and...

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