Petrarchism at Work: Contextual Economies in the Age of Shakespeare
William J. Kennedy
The Italian scholar and poet Francesco Petrarch (1304–1374) is best remembered today for vibrant and impassioned love poetry that helped to establish Italian as a literary language. Petrarch inspired later Renaissance writers, who produced an extraordinary body of work regarded today as perhaps the high-water mark of poetic productivity in the European West. These "Petrarchan" poets were self-consciously aware of themselves as poets—as craftsmen, revisers, and professionals. As William J. Kennedy shows in Petrarchism at Work, this commitment to professionalism and the mastery of poetic craft is essential to understanding Petrarch’s legacy.
Petrarchism at Work contributes to recent scholarship that ... Read more
Show LessProduct Details
About William J. Kennedy
Reviews for Petrarchism at Work: Contextual Economies in the Age of Shakespeare
Renaissance Quarterly
Invites debate, reflection, and further contributions on a widening variety of textual corpora. This fine book has much to recommend it, especially ... Read more