Petrarch Commentary and Exegesis in Renaissance Italy and Beyond: Materiality, Paratexts and Interpretative Strategies

Guyda Armstrong; Simon A. Gilson; Federica Pich

Petrarch Commentary and Exegesis in Renaissance Italy and Beyond
Materiality, Paratexts and Interpretative Strategies

Edited by Guyda Armstrong, Simon A. Gilson and Federica Pich

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Italian Perspectives 56

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22 January 2023 • 256pp

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This volume explores the complex phenomenon of exegetical work produced from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century on Petrarch’s vernacular poetry, that is, both his Rerum vulgarium fragmenta (Canzoniere) and his Triumphi (Trionfi). This body of exegesis takes the form of commentaries, annotations, academic lectures, and other forms of paratextual and critical intervention, from biographies and glossaries to marginal notes and illustrative programmes.

The volume gathers together ten contributions from Anglo-American, Italian and continental scholarship. It combines rigorous analyses of specific commentators and lecturers (the author of the ‘Portilia’ commentary, Silvano da Venafro, Giovan Battista Gelli) alongside contributions devoted to interpretative strategies in both commentaries and academic lectures. It also explores the reception in Italy, France and England of the major Petrarch commentary by Alessandro Vellutello, as well as forms of reception and interpretation in paratexts and images. The volume is divided into three sections: ‘Philology, Materiality and Paratexts’; ‘Exegetical Strategies in Commentaries and Lessons’; and ‘Visual Exegesis and Reception in France and England’.

Contents:

ix-xi	Notes On the Contributors Guyda Armstrong, Simon A. Gilson, Federica Pich doi:10.2307/jj.667671.3	Cite
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xii-xiii	List of Illustrations Guyda Armstrong, Simon A. Gilson, Federica Pich doi:10.2307/jj.667671.4	Cite
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xiv-xiv	List of Abbreviations Guyda Armstrong, Simon A. Gilson, Federica Pich doi:10.2307/jj.667671.5	Cite
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1-24	Introduction Guyda Armstrong, Simon A. Gilson, Federica Pich doi:10.2307/jj.667671.6	Cite
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25-40	I Trionfi nell’esegesi del Commento Portilia Bernhard Huss doi:10.2307/jj.667671.7	Cite
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41-58	Come veniva letto il Vellutello nel Cinquecento.: Fortuna e fruizione dei commenti al Petrarca volgare Sabrina Stroppa doi:10.2307/jj.667671.8	Cite
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59-78	Il commento a Petrarca di Silvano da Venafro (1533) Nicole Volta doi:10.2307/jj.667671.9	Cite
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79-94	Forms and Aims of Exegesis in Girolamo Ruscelli’s Editions of Petrarch (1554) Brian Richardson doi:10.2307/jj.667671.10	Cite
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95-122	Reading Petrarch’s Sonnets of the Innamoramento (Rerum vulgarium fragmenta 2 and 3) in Early Modern Italy Giacomo Comiati doi:10.2307/jj.667671.11	Cite
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123-140	Petrarca, il ritratto e le arti figurative.: La lezione di Giambattista Gelli sui sonetti 77 e 78 del Canzoniere Johannes Bartuschat doi:10.2307/jj.667671.12	Cite
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141-160	Utile dulci in Sixteenth-Century Readings of the Canzoniere.: Ethical Issues in Academic Lectures on Petrarch Lorenzo Sacchini doi:10.2307/jj.667671.13	Cite
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161-176	La traduzione del Canzoniere di Petrarca di Vasquin Philieul (1548) e il suo commento letterario-morale Jean Balsamo doi:10.2307/jj.667671.14	Cite
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177-212	‘From thowght to thowght’: How Thomas Wyatt Read (and Heard) his Petrarch William T. Rossiter doi:10.2307/jj.667671.15	Cite
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213-232	Visual Exegesis of the Fragmenta: Book Illustrations and Emblematic Invention Andrea Torre doi:10.2307/jj.667671.16	Cite
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233-242	Index Guyda Armstrong, Simon A. Gilson, Federica Pich doi:10.2307/jj.667671.17	Cite
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Armstrong, Guyda, Simon A. Gilson, and Federica Pich (eds), Petrarch Commentary and Exegesis in Renaissance Italy and Beyond: Materiality, Paratexts and Interpretative Strategies, Italian Perspectives, 56 (Legenda, 2023)

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Edited by Guyda Armstrong, Simon A. Gilson and Federica Pich

Petrarch Commentary and Exegesis in Renaissance Italy and Beyond
Materiality, Paratexts and Interpretative Strategies