The French Petrarch

The story-making in Petrarch's Rime sparse, giving rise to numerous commentaries and to biographical annotations in editions of his lyric collection, was central to the reception of the Rime in France. It made its mark on cultural politics in the sixteenth century in the "naturalization&qu...

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Published in:Annali d'italianistica 2004-01, Vol.22, p.171-187
Main Author: Sturm-Maddox, Sara
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anthologies
Love
Love poetry
Lyric poetry
Narrative poetry
Odes
Petrarch
Poetic themes
Poetry
Poets
Song lyrics
Sonnets
The Lyric Petrarch in Early Modern Europe
Travel
Works
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Summary:The story-making in Petrarch's Rime sparse, giving rise to numerous commentaries and to biographical annotations in editions of his lyric collection, was central to the reception of the Rime in France. It made its mark on cultural politics in the sixteenth century in the "naturalization" of Petrarch in the Vaucluse as a poet of France, and on the Renaissance French lyric in the manner in which a number of poets adopted and adapted his canzoniere as dominant lyric model. Its central role is well illustrated in the self-conscious shaping of the poetic career of France's greatest poet of the century, Pierre de Ronsard, who aspired to the title of "French Petrarch."
ISSN:0741-7527