
Petrarch the Poet (Routledge Revivals)
In this critical and historical interpretation of Petrarch’s major Italian work, the collection of poems he called the Rerum vulgarium fagmenta, Peter Hainsworth presents Petrarch as a poet of outstanding sophistication and seriousness, occupied with issues which are still central to debates about poetry and language.
In the Rerum vulgarium fragmenta Petrarch reformed the received Italian tradition...
In this critical and historical interpretation of Petrarch’s major Italian work, the collection of poems he called the Rerum vulgarium fagmenta, Peter Hainsworth presents Petrarch as a poet of outstanding sophistication and seriousness, occupied with issues which are still central to debates about poetry and language.
In the Rerum vulgarium fragmenta Petrarch reformed the received Italian tradition...