Petrarch’s Genius

Marjorie Boyle is the first theologian to write about Petrarch the poet as theologian. With her extraordinarily broad and deep knowledge of the theological, historical, and literary contexts of her subject, she presents an entirely original and revisionary account of Petrarch's literary career. Petrarch, she argues, has been misunderstood by the division of his literary enterprise into two sides--Petrarch the poet, Petrarch the humanist reformer--studied by literary critics and historians respectively. Boyle demonstrates that the division is artificial, that the two sides are part of the same prophetic mission. Petrarch's Genius is an important book that deserves to be read by all Petrarch scholars--theologians as well as literary critics and historians.

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• Gracious Laughter

  Open Access•Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle, Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle•Renaissance Quarterly•1999

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• Erasmus, Contarini, and the Religious Republic of Letters

  Constance M Furey, Seymour Baker House•Renaissance and Reformation•2008

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• Chaff

  Marjorie O''Rourke Boyle, Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle•New Literary History•1997

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• Exile and Petrarch’s Reinvention of Authorship

  Open Access•Laurence E Hooper, Laurence Hooper•Renaissance Quarterly•2016

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