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Article: Petrarch's Genius: Pentimento and Prophecy.
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- Renaissance Quarterly
- Article date:
- June 22, 1994
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Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. ix + 216 pp. $34-95.
This is an idiosyncratic book, whose author's spirited refusal to accept the stereotypes of Petrarch criticism is laudable but unfortunately not fertile, generating a reading that is -- to this reader anyway -- wholly implausible. Boyle lays her cards on the table in the introduction, asserting that our collective failure to take Petrarch seriously as a theologian and prophet is the fault of the theologians who have abandoned him to the ignorant ministrations of literary critics: "The responsibility for misinterpretation thus reverts not to scholars of Petrarch but to ...
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... ... medieval world he was transforming, Petrarch is one of the most elusive and complex ... and forever contradictory writings of Petrarch have been the subject of much speculation ... Giuseppe Mazzotta's The Worlds of Petrarch is a valuable addition to the rich Petrarchan ...
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