Petrarch and Dante: Anti-Dantism, Metaphysics, Tradition (William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante and Medieval Italian Literature)

by Jr. (Author), Jr. (Author), Zygmunt G. Baranski (Author), Theodore J. Cachey (Author)

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  Paperback
  2009

  $50.85

  Since the beginnings of Italian vernacular literature, the nature of the relationship between Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374) and his predecessor Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) has remained a fascinating question of both literary and cultural history. This title explores the emergence of an anti-Dantean polemic in Petrarch's work.