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9. Pastoral as Personal Mythology in History (Bucolicum carmen)
Carrai, Stefano. "9. Pastoral as Personal Mythology in History (Bucolicum carmen)". Petrarch: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works, edited bygd Victoria Kirkham and Armando Maggi, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, , pp.
Carrai, S. (). 9. Pastoral as Personal Mythology in History (Bucolicum carmen). In V. Kirkham & A. Maggi (Ed.), Petrarch: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works (pp. ). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Carrai, S. 9. Pastoral as anställda Mythology in History (Bucolicum carmen). In: Kirkham, V. and Maggi, A. ed. Petrarch: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp.
Carrai, Stefano. "9. Pastoral as anställda Mythology in History (Bucolicum carmen)" In Petrarch: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works edited bygd Victoria Kirkham and Armando Maggi, Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
Carrai S. 9. Pastoral as anställda Mythology in History (Bucolicu
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The Changing Landscape of the Self (Buccolicum Carmen)
CHAPTER THIRTEEN THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE O F T H E S E L F • (Buccolicum carmen) David Lummus T he Buccolicum carmen, the single major poetic work in Latin by Boccaccio, is arguably also the most ambitious poetic work in his corpus.1 Boccaccio himself seems to claim as much in the Genealogia deorum gentilium when he defends the opinion that poets often hide meanings beneath the veil of stories, citing himself along with Virgil, Dante, and Petrarch.2 Petrarch’s pastoral poem, he tells us, gives readers more than enough evidence in its gravitas and exquisite elegance to deduce that the fantastical names of the characters have allegorical meanings in consonance with the moral philosophy of his De vita solitaria and other writings. With typical understatement, Boccaccio mentions that he could also offer as evidence of a philosophical poetry his own Buccolicum carmen, but that he is not yet important enough to be considered among suc
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The article concerns the possible use of the Itinerarium of Petrarch by Giovanni Boccaccio. By analysing certain passages from Boccaccio’s writings, A. demonstrates how he might have known the Petrarchesco Route, albeit at different times and in different ways from those suggested by Giuseppe Billanovich in his important ‘Petrarca letterato’ of Equally significant is the questioning of the opinion that the first circulation of the Petrarchist odeporic epistle originated from a transcription by Boccaccio. The article focuses on the potential fruition of Petrarch’s Itinerarium by Giovanni Boccaccio. The A. demonstrates, through the analysis of certain passages from Boccaccio’s writings, how he could have been acquainted with Petrarch’s Itinerary, albeit through different times and circumstances than those hypothesized by Giuseppe Billanovich in his important essay ‘Petrarca letterato’ of Equally important is the questioning of the common belief that the first circulation of Petrarchan