Secret

Name: Secret
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ISBN: 9780312154387

ISBN-10: 0312154380

ISBN-13: 9780312154387

Edition: 2003

Authors: Francesco Petrarca, Carol E. Quillen, Carol E. Quillen

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One of the great poets of the 14th century, Italian scholar Francesco Petrarch is also regarded as the father of the humanist movement. The Secret, Petrarch's autobiographical treatise translated here from the Latin, represents a "humanist manifesto" central to understanding European culture during the early modern period. Carol Quillen's introductory essay to this volume illuminates the development of humanist practices, Petrarch's role in the dissemination of humanist ideas, the importance of The Secret as a humanist text, and the enduring historical significance of the humanist tradition in Western thought and culture. Also included are several illustrations, a chronology, a selected…

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List price: $17.99
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Bedford/Saint Martin's
Publication date: 2/26/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 178
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.616
Language: English



Foreword


Preface


List of Maps and Illustrations



Introduction: Petrarch's Secret and Renaissance Humanism


Petrarch and the Humanist Movement


A Crown for a Poet


The Lure of the Past


Petrarch and the Ancients


Defining Humanism


Humanism After Petrarch The Secret


A Humanist Manifesto


The Composition and Structure of The Secret


Augustinus


Augustinus and Franciscus


Laura


Franciscus


The Legacy of The Secret


A Note on the Translation



The Secret



Related Documents


Petrarch, First Letter to Marcus Tullius Cicero, Dated June 16, 1345


Augustine, From Confessions, Finished ca. 400 C.E.


Virgil, From Aeneid, ca. 20 B.C.E. and Augustine, From The City of God, Finished ca. 426 C.E.


Appendixes


Glossary of Names


A Petrarch Chronology (1304-1374)


Questions for Consideration


Selected Bibliography


Index