Canzoniere 366
Petrarch's Critique of Stoicism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16473702 |
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| Authors | Pamela Williams (0009-0000-0184-0448, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 27-43 |
| Publication date | 1996-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Italian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0075-1634 • E-ISSN: 1748-6181 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1179/its.1996.51.1.27 |
| OpenAlex | W2024600043 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
Rhetoricians give extra care to the beginning and end of their compositions, just as military commanders make sure their strongest troops flank their armies. Petrarch evidently had such prescriptions in mind for his Canzoniere. The opening sonnet and the final canzone (I and 366) undoubtedly provide an artistically strong framework for the collection; however, their incoherence, ideologically speaking, is striking. The sonnet is a statement of the achievement of detachment from the variety of emotions which derived from the poet's love of Laura; in the canzone the moral conflict between profane and sacred love is still unresolved and the Christian terms in which the poet speaks, specifically of the need for divine grace for conversion from sin and the right ordering of love, are transparently Augustinian
Art · Epistemology · Ideology · Literature · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Sonnet · Statement (logic · Stoicism · Variety (cybernetics · Byzantine Studies and History · History · Law · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy · Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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