MARC Record from Marygrove College

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049 $aMAIN
100 1 $aPetrarca, Francesco,$d1304-1374,$eauthor.
240 10 $aCorrespondence.$kSelections.$lEnglish
245 10 $aLetters from Petrarch /$cselected and translated by Morris Bishop ; drawings by Alison Mason Kingsbury.
246 3 $aLetters
264 1 $aBloomington :$bIndiana University Press,$c[1966]
300 $axi, 306 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
520 $aPetrarch's letters are both typical and exceptional. They are typical as records of life in the gloomy latter end of the Middle Ages in Europe, especially in Italy and southern France. They are packed with information about the literary, eccesiastical, and courtly worlds, about food, clothing, travel, medicine, agriculture, and the routine of ordinary existence. They are also typical in their expression of the ideas and responses which all men of a certain time and place must share. The letters are at the same time exceptional. Petrarch was a great poet and scholar. He was one of the initiators of the humanistic revival that was soon to become the Renaissance. He had an original, inquiring mind, which was stimulated rather than conventionalized by his classical studies. He had a very unusual taste for introspection, he examined his own behavior with pensive delight. He gives his correspondents, and posterity, the most complete picture in existence of the inner and outer life of a medieval man.
505 0 $aChronology of Petrarch -- Epistle to Posterity -- Letters on familiar matters -- Mischellaneous letters -- Letters of riper years -- Letters included in this volume.
530 $aAlso issued online.
590 $bInternet Archive - 2
590 $bInternet Archive 2
600 10 $aPetrarca, Francesco,$d1304-1374$vCorrespondence.
600 17 $aPetrarca, Francesco,$d1304-1374.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00041151
655 7 $aPersonal correspondence.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01919948
700 1 $aBishop, Morris,$d1893-1973,$eeditor,$etranslator.
700 1 $aKingsbury, Alison Mason,$d1898-$eillustrator.
776 08 $iOnline version:$aPetrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.$tLetters.$dBloomington, Indiana University Press [1966]$w(OCoLC)574458129
994 $a92$bERR
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