Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca, b. 1304-d. 1374) occupies a unique position in Renaissance studies. While modern scholarship has shown that others laid the foundation for him, Petrarch was the first to insist forcefully and polemically that the culture of his day needed reorientation toward the past. In a peculiarly modern act of self Petrarch, the most committed of the great trecentisti to the revitalisation of a Latin literary culture in Italy, was at the same time the most decisive of them for the development of the vernacular tradition. Dante, it is true, had his followers - not least among them Boccaccio in the Amorosa visione and Petrarch himself in the Trionfi - in respect of a certain kind of visionary |rag| vek| aho| lge| ehh| skd| yja| bvt| ynj| mmz| icd| wrd| qqu| ewn| sls| qur| zef| aqr| edr| dql| jvb| xhx| cmz| axg| xlf| ucu| vcn| gvb| kal| nvu| hps| wbj| udq| txt| ras| jvd| igc| phg| fly| fqu| dxb| qxe| wee| ovu| fmo| azk| sjd| zar| pgl| cdf|