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Article: Petrarch and His Readers in the Renaissance.(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- December 22, 2006
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Karl A. E. Enenkel and Jan Papy, eds. Petrarch and His Readers in the Renaissance.
Intersections: Yearbook for Early Modern Studies 6. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2006. xiv + 334 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. $125. ISBN: 90-04-14766-7.
This volume collects twelve essays from the conference, "Friends and Foes of the Poet Laureate: Petrarch and His Readers in the Renaissance," held at the University of Leiden in 2004 to celebrate the seven-hundredth birthday of Francesco Petrarca (1304-74). With an introduction by the editors, Karl Enenkel and Jan Papy, the volume explores how Petrarch's writings were received in the Renaissance. Emphasizing ...