Sacchini, L (2018) Petrarch’s exegesis in Cinquecento Italian Academies. In: SGEM2018 Conference Proceedings. 5th International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conference on Social Sciences and Arts, 19-22 Mar 2018, Vienna, Austria. SGEM , pp. 429-436. ISBN 978-619-7408-31-7
Abstract
In the first part of my paper, I will present the project ‘Petrarch Commentary and Exegesis in Renaissance Italy, c. 1350-c. 1650’ and its provisional research findings. This project, founded for 3 years, starting January 2017, by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, aims to reconstruct the corpus of all the exegetical works on Petrarch’s Italian literary production. This vast and variegated material includes commentaries, academic lectures, glossaries, annotations, and all the other forms of exegetical works dealing with the RVF and the Triumphs. The core of the project is the creation of an online freely accessible database, where all this material will be listed, described, and illustrated.
In the second part of the paper, I will concentrate in particular on the academic lectures as form of exegesis and their different typologies. I intend to offer the different ways in which Petrarch’s text was read and received in the contest of Cinquecento Italian academies. So far, I have been able to distinguish three main aims that speakers pursued while presenting Petrarch’s poems: 1) to illustrate some grammatical, linguistic, and/or rhetorical aspects strictly connected to the poetic language adopted by Petrarch; 2) to focus on the philosophical concepts derivable from the reading of Petrarch’s sonnet; 3) to spread moral teachings to the other members of the academy.
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Item Type: | Proceedings Paper |
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Keywords: | Early-modern literary societies; Italian Academies; Petrarch’s literary heritage; Petrarch’s exegesis; Dissemination of ideas |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Languages Cultures & Societies (Leeds) > Italian (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 25 Apr 2018 12:09 |
Last Modified: | 08 May 2018 10:48 |
Published Version: | https://www.sgemworld.at/ssgemlib/spip.php?article... |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SGEM |
Identification Number: | 10.5593/sgemsocial2018H/21/S08.053 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:130057 |