British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 146

Petrarch in Britain: Interpreters, Imitators, and Translators over 700 Years

edited by Martin McLaughlin & Letizia Panizza, with Peter Hainsworth

Published 2007
for the British Academy by Oxford University Press

234 × 156 mm; 384 pages
hardback, ISBN 978-0-19-726413-3
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This volume is the most comprehensive and up to date survey of Petrarch's literary legacy in Britain. It explores a number of key topics: Petrarch's analysis of the self; his dialogue with other classical and Italian authors; Petrarchism and anti-Petrarchism in Renaissance Italy; Petrarchism in England and Scotland; and Petrarch's modern legacy in both Italy and Britain.

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