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Article: Petrarch in Britain: Interpreters, Imitators, and Translators over 700 Years.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- October 1, 2008
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Petrarch in Britain: Interpreters, Imitators, and Translators over 700 Years. Ed. by MARTIN McLAUGHLIN and LETIZIA PANIZZA with PETER HAINSWORTH. (Proceedings of the British Academy, 146) Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy. 2007. xiv+370 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-19-726413-3.
The twenty essays in this collection originated in a conference held at the British Academy in 2004 to mark the seventh centenary of Petrarch's birth. The opening essay, by Piero Boitani, is about Britain as seen by Petrarch. For him, the Britons belonged of course to the mass of more or less benighted' barbari' (he mentions only one contemporary' not ignorant ...