Petrarch, Creator of the Christian Humanist

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Acknowledgments IX
4. Introduction 1
5. The Formation of Knowledge and Petrarch’s Books 15
6. Sacra solitudo. Petrarch’s authorship and the locus sacer 52
7. Petrarch, Creator of the Christian Humanist 65
8. Petrarch and the History of Philosophy 78
9. The Secret Life of Classical and Arabic Medical Texts in Petrarch’s Canzoniere 91
10. From Paradox to Exclusivity: Dante and Petrarch’s Lyrical Eschatologies 129
11. Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio on Religious Conversion 153
12. The Incipit of the Decameron: Textual Margins as an Index of Epochal Change 176
13. The Proemio of the Decameron. Boccaccio’s Hidden Dialogue with Scholasticism 194
14. Boccaccio’s Novel Hecuba: Beritola between Ovid and Dante 209
15. Boccaccio, the Classics and the Latin Middle Ages 226
16. The Inventors of Things in Boccaccio’s De genealogia deorum gentilium 244
17. Boccaccio’s Critique of Petrarch 270
18. The Perfect Woman in Boccaccio and Petrarch 286
19. Petrarch, Boccaccio, and the Space of Vernacular Literature 313
20. Between Petrarch and Boccaccio: Strategies of the End 340
21. Contributors 367
22. Index of Manuscripts 373
23. Index Nominum 375