Kennedy chronicles the process of Petrarch's canonization from the interpretive commentaries found in rare fifteenth- and sixteenth-century editions of Rime sparse through the imitative poetry of early modern writers in Italy, France, and England. The commentaries--each employing a different Petrarch to promote a different ideological paradigm--take a wide range of approaches to important contemporaneous issues relating to politics, class, religion, love, and gender relationships.
- ISBN10 0801429749
- ISBN13 9780801429743
- Publish Date 1 December 1994
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 12 January 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Cornell University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 301
- Language English