{"product_id":"petrarch-the-poet-routledge-revivals-1","title":"Petrarch the Poet (Routledge Revivals)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this critical and historical interpretation of Petrarch’s major Italian work, the collection of poems he called the \u003ci\u003eRerum vulgarium fagmenta\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the \u003ci\u003eRerum vulgarium fragmenta \u003c\/i\u003ePetrarch reformed the received Italian tradition, creating a new kind of lyric poetry. In particular, he found solutions to the intellectual, linguistic and imaginative problems which Dante’s \u003ci\u003eDivine Comedy\u003c\/i\u003e posed for the succeeding generation of poets. \u003ci\u003ePetrarch the Poet \u003c\/i\u003eillumines the complexities of Petrarch’s poetic vision, which is simultaneously a form of autobiographical narrative, a poetic encyclopaedia and a meditation on the nature of poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book will appeal to Italian specialists, to those interested in European poetry of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, and also to readers interested generally in the nature and function of poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54234712867160,"sku":"9780415740463","price":70.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780415740463.jpg?v=1769547734","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/petrarch-the-poet-routledge-revivals-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}