Author: Francesco PetrarcaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : la
Pages : 232
Book Description
Petrarch's Ascent of Mount Ventoux
Author: Francesco PetrarcaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : la
Pages : 232
Book Description
Selections from the Canzoniere and Other Works
Author: Francesco PetrarcaPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192839510
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
This entirely new translation includes Petrarch's short autobiographical prose works, The Letter to Posterity and The Ascent of Mount Ventoux, and a selection of twenty-seven poems from the Canzoniere, Petrarch's best-known work in Italian.
The Worlds of Petrarch
Author: Giuseppe MazzottaPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 082238261X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
At the center of Petrarch's vision, announcing a new way of seeing the world, was the individual, a sense of the self that would one day become the center of modernity as well. This self, however, seemed to be fragmented in Petrarch's work, divided among the worlds of philosophy, faith, and love of the classics, politics, art, and religion, of Italy, France, Greece, and Rome. In recent decades scholars have explored each of these worlds in depth. In this work, Giuseppe Mazzotta shows for the first time how all these fragmentary explorations relate to each other, how these separate worlds are part of a common vision. Written in a clear and passionate style, The Worlds of Petrarch takes us into the politics of culture, the poetic imagination, into history and ethics, art and music, rhetoric and theology. With this encyclopedic strategy, Mazzotta is able to demonstrate that the self for Petrarch is not a unified whole but a unity of parts, and, at the same time, that culture emerges not from a consensus but from a conflict of ideas produced by opposition and dark passion. These conflicts, intrinsic to Petrarch's style of thought, lead Mazzotta to a powerful rethinking of the concepts of "fragments" and "unity" and, finally, to a new understanding of the relationship between them.
My Divine Comedy
Author: Missy AndrewsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780998322971
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
25-year homeschooling veteran Missy Andrews remembers her journey, describing how her greatest failures as a homeschooling mother were transformed into even greater mercies as they opened her eyes to the impact of the Gospel on identity and education.
Mountain Dialogues from Antiquity to Modernity
Author: Dawn HollisPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350162841
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Throughout the longue dureé of Western culture, how have people represented mountains as landscapes of the imagination and as places of real experience? In what ways has human understanding of mountains changed – or stayed the same? Mountain Dialogues from Antiquity to Modernity opens up a new conversation between ancient and modern engagements with mountains. It highlights the ongoing relevance of ancient understandings of mountain environments to the postclassical and present-day world, while also suggesting ways in which modern approaches to landscape can generate new questions about premodern responses. It brings together experts from across many different disciplines and periods, offering case studies on topics ranging from classical Greek drama to Renaissance art, and from early modern natural philosophy to nineteenth-century travel writing. Throughout, essays engage with key themes of temporality, knowledge, identity, and experience in the mountain landscape. As a whole, the volume suggests that modern responses to mountains participate in rhetorical and experiential patterns that stretch right back to the ancient Mediterranean. It also makes the case for collaborative, cross-period research as a route both for understanding human relations with the natural world in the past, and informing them in the present.
Letters on Familiar Matters
Author: Francesco PetrarcaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Italian
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Medieval Narratives of Alexander the Great
Author: Venetia BridgesPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1843845024
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
An investigation into the depiction and reception of the figure of Alexander in the literatures of medieval Europe.
Climb
Author: Kerry BurnsPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0762775718
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
From straightforward narratives of ascents to meticulous self-examination to spiritual reveries, climbing prompts men and women to pour forth essays, articles, and books that are unlike any other field of literature. Here is an adrenaline-infused collection of some of the finest climbing stories ever assembled. Noted mountaineer and climber Cameron M. Burns and Kerry L. Burns bring together tales of climbers, boulderers, and mountaineers from around the world. These intriguing adventures include Francesco Petrarch’s 1336 ascent of Mount Ventoux, Pat Ament’s descent into the Black Canyon of the Gunnison with Layton Kor, Josh Lowell’s bouldering adventures in Harlem, and much more. Including stories from: Royal Robbins ? David Pagel ? Mick Fowler ? David Brower Paul Ross ? Jeff Salz ? Warren Hollinger ? Mike Thompson ? Isabella Lucy Bird James Outram ? Leslie Stephen ? Albert L. Ellingwood
Orogenesis
Author: Michael R. W. JohnsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521765560
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
A valuable introduction to the processes of mountain belt formation and summary of orogenic research, for advanced students and researchers.
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Author: Francesco Petrarca