Dante and the Origins of Italian Literary Culture

Barolini, Teodolinda

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“…Rossi, 1930, 110, also intuits the connection between book 24 and Petrarch’s poems for Laura. For the problem of time as Petrarch’s major metaphysical and therefore philosophical concern, see Barolini, 2009b and 2009c as well as the foundational Barolini, 2006: “In other words, Petrarch’s acceptance of the dictates of narrative is governed by his nonacceptance: in part 1 narrative is avoided because the goal is to stop time, resist death; in part 2 narrative is invoked because in order to preserve her as she was he must preserve her in time. He thus adopts opposite and apparently contradictory strategies to achieve the same results.…”

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“…When she is dead, he needs to appropriate it. So, Petrarch both evades narrativity and confronts it because both postures figure in his dialectical struggle to overcome the forces of time”: Barolini, 2006, 222. For a broader genealogy of the theme of the triumph of time, see Folena.…”

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“…4.1, see Ascoli, 2011, 21–58. Barolini, 2006, 217–18, notes the pursuit of traces of Laura as exemplary of the impulse toward narration in part 2, referring to Rvf 280, 288, 301, 304, 305, 306, and 320.…”

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In the Labyrinth of the Library: Petrarch’s Cicero, Dante’s Virgil, and the Historiography of the Renaissance

Eisner

2014

Renaiss. Q.

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Petrarch’s 1345 discovery of Cicero’s personal letters in Verona has long been regarded as a foundational moment in the historiography of the Renaissance. In the traditional view, Petrarch’s discovery engenders a new historical self-consciousness that has frequently been described, since the middle of the twentieth century, in terms of a contrast between a medieval Dante and a Renaissance Petrarch. In keeping with recent work rethinking periodization, this essay revisits Petrarch’s letters on his discovery to reconsider the distance between Dante and Petrarch and to reveal how Petrarch constructs his new relationship with Cicero through Dante’s characterization of Virgil. While some critics have noted this Dantean presence, they have not examined its meaning. This study argues that Petrarch’s borrowing from Dante is significant because it shows how Dante’s complex relationship to the past embodied in the figure of Virgil shaped Petrarch’s construction of his Cicero and informed Renaissance ideas of history.

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