Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Note on Bibliographical Forms and Abbreviations xiii
6. Chronology of Petrarch’s Life and Works Victoria Kirkham xv
7. A Life’s Work 1
8. PART I. AN ENDURING VERNACULAR LEGACY
9. 1. The Self in the Labyrinth of Time (Rerum vulgarium fragmenta) 33
10. 2. The Poem of Memory (Triumphi) 63
11. 3. Petrarch’s Damned Poetry and the Poetics of Exclusion (Rime disperse) 85
12. PART II. LITERARY DEBUT, LATIN HUMANISM, AND ORATIONS
13. 4. The Rebirth of the Romans as Models of Character (De viris illustribus) 103
14. 5. Petrarch’s Philological Epic (Africa) 113
15. 6. The Beginnings of Humanistic Oratory: Petrarch’s Coronation Oration (Collatio laureationis) 131
16. 7. Petrarch the Courtier: Five Public Speeches (Arenga facta Venecijs, Arringa facta Mediolani, Arenga facta in civitate Novarie, Collatio brevis coram Iohanne Francorum rege, Orazione per la seconda ambasceria veneziana) 141
17. 8. The Unforgettable Books of Things to Be Remembered (Rerum memorandarum libri) 151
18. PART III. CONTEMPLATIVE SERENITY
19. 9. Pastoral as Personal Mythology in History (Bucolicum carmen) 165
20. 10. “You Will Be My Solitude”: Solitude as Prophecy (De vita solitaria) 179
21. 11. A Humanistic Approach to Religious Solitude (De otio religioso) 197
22. PART IV. JOURNEYS INTO THE SOUL
23. 12. The Burning Question: Crisis and Cosmology in the Secret (Secretum) 210
24. 13. Petrarch’s Personal Psalms (Psalmi penitentiales) 219
25. 14. The Place of the Itinerarium (Itinerarium ad sepulchrum domini nostri Yhesu Christi) 229
26. PART V. LIFE’S TURBULENCE
27. 15. On the Two Faces of Fortune (De remediis utriusque fortune) 245
28. 16. The Art of Invective (Invective contra medicum) 255
29. 17. The Economy of Invective and a Man in the Middle (De sui ipsius et multorum ignorantia) 263
30. PART VI. PETRARCH THE EPISTLER
31. 18. A Poetic Journal (Epystole) 277
32. 19. The Book without a Name: Petrarch’s Open Secret (Liber sine nomine) 291
33. 20. The Uncollected Poet (Lettere disperse) 301
34. 21. Petrarch’s Epistolary Epic: Letters on Familiar Matters (Rerum familiarum libri) 309
35. 22. Letters of Old Age: Love between Men, Griselda, and Farewell to Letters (Rerum senilium libri) 321
36. 23. To Write As Another: The Testamentum (Testamentum) 333
37. Notes 347
38. Bibliography 479
39. List of Contributors 521
40. Index 527