Petrarch's Genius: Pentimento and Prophecy

by Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle

Overview

Marjorie Boyle is the first theologian to write about Petrarch the poet as theologian. With her extraordinarily broad and deep knowledge of the theological, historical, and literary contexts of her subject, she presents an entirely original and revisionary account of Petrarch's literary career.

Petrarch, she argues, has been misunderstood by the division of his literary enterprise into two sides—Petrarch the poet, Petrarch the humanist reformer—studied by literary critics and historians respectively. Boyle demonstrates that the division is artificial, that the two sides are part of the same prophetic mission. Petrarch's Genius is an important book that deserves to be read by all Petrarch scholars—theologians as well as literary critics and historians.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520910904
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	04/28/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle is the author of three books on Erasmus: Erasmus on Language and Method in Theology (Toronto 1977), Christian Pagan Mysteries (Toronto 1981), and Rhetoric and Reform (Harvard 1983).

Table of Contents

	Introduction	1
1.	Hail, True Apollo!	11
2.	The Sylvan Citizen	44
3.	The Babylonian Captive	74
4.	Wounded Lovers	113
	Epilogue	153
	Notes	159
	Primary Sources	207
	Index of Petrarch's Works	213
	Index of Names	214