Petrarch (116 page)
Authors: Mark Musa
Baudelaire, Charles,
xxi
Beatific Vision: Church doctrine on,
608
; and image of Laura in Sonnet 342,
709
Beatrice.
See
Dante
Bembo,
591
Bertran de Born,
638
Biagioli, G.,
715
Bible.
See
specific books of
Billanovich, Giuseppe,
xx
Black Death: and dating of Sonnet 249,
660
; as cause of Laura’s death,
697
Boccaccio: style of compared to Petrarch’s,
xxv
,
710
; on vulgarity in poetic language,
xxvii
; allusions to works of in
Canzoniere
,
554
,
632
,
716
; cited by Carducci,
639
,
704
,
710
,
716
; meeting with Petrarch,
677
,
690
; sonnet on death of Petrarch,
681
; impact of
Canzoniere
on,
688
Boiardo,
626
Boniface VIII, Pope,
526
Bosco, Umberto,
677
Bosone da Gubbio,
555
Bruno, Giordano,
xxi
Buzzuola, Ugolin,
656
Byblis, myth of,
534–35
Caetani family,
556
Callisto, myth of,
662
Canonical hours, sequence of,
587
Canzone: structure of,
541
,
605
; integrity of Petrarch’s form of,
583
; Provençal form of,
638
Canzoniere
(Petrarch): contents and development of,
xi–xii
; cyclic distribution of poems in,
xii
; influence of on Western
literature,
xiii
; modern reader’s response to,
xiii–xiv
; as dialogue with Dante,
xiv–xv
; mixed style of,
xxiv
; chronological order of poems in,
xxv
; development of poetic language in,
xxvii
–xxxiv; subdivisions of,
554
,
666–67
.
See also
Petrarch; notes on specific poems
Carducci, Giosuè: content of edition of
Canzoniere
by,
ix
,
x
; description of Sonnet 48 as sexually suggestive,
552
; on classical uses of
si trastulla
,
567
; influence of Horace on Canzone 72,
568
; on meaning of
non amezzo
,
572
; on Sonnet 81,
573
; on Sonnet 87,
575
; on Sonnet 98,
580
; on image of naked Laura in Canzone 126,
596
; on Petrarch’s attacks on papacy,
608
; on jealousy and anger in Sonnet 196,
634
; citations of Boccacio,
639
,
704
; criticism of Sonnet 217 by,
645
; on phrasing of Sonnet 242,
657
; on love poetry of Guittone d’Arezzo,
681
; comparison of Sonnet 311 to Virgil,
691
; and criticism of Sonnet 349,
713
; dating of Canzone 359,
717
; on allusions in Canzone 360,
719
,
721
Castelvetro: interpretation of Canzone 37,
547
; comparison of images in Sonnets 109 and 165,
586
; on image of naked Laura in Canzone 126,
596
; on Laura’s smile in Sonnet 131,
604
; on Sonnet 213 as Petrarch’s response to rumors of bewitchment,
643
; interpretation of Sonnet 247,
659
; interpretation of Canzone 270,
672
; on Petrarch’s portrayal of self in Sonnet 274,
675
; interpretation of Sonnet 312,
692
; on imagery of Sonnet 354,
715
; interpretation of Canzone 359,
718
; criticism of Canzone 366 on theological grounds,
723–24
Charlemagne,
538
Chiari, Alberto,
x
,
577
,
625
,
660
,
698
,
699
,
711
,
717
,
725
Christ, allusions to,
522
,
523
,
528
,
540
,
573
,
579
,
581
,
592
,
599
,
641
,
648
,
663
,
706
,
716
,
717
,
718
Chronology, of poems in
Canzoniere:
and mixed style of,
xxv
; and events of Petrarch’s life,
xxxv–xxxvi
; of series beginning with Sonnet 240,
656
; and death of Laura,
669–70
.
See also
Dating
Church.
See
Heresy
;
Index of Forbidden Books
;
Papacy
Cicero,
xiv
,
xxii
,
xxxi
,
539
,
600
,
680
,
713
Cochin, Charles-Nicolas,
706
Cola di Rienzo,
555
Colonna, Agapito,
559
Colonna, Giacomo (bishop of Lombez),
538
,
539
,
540
,
642
,
696
Colonna family,
556
,
557
,
563
,
608
Confession, Canzone 135 as,
605
Constantine I (Emperor),
609
Contini, Gianfranco,
ix
,
577
,
711
Crusades, allusions to,
531
,
538
,
539
,
540
Curtius, E. R.,
650
Daniel, Arnaut,
530
,
541
,
564
,
626
,
643
,
669
,
688
Dante:
Canzoniere
as dialogue with,
xiv–xv
; Beatrice compared to Petrarch’s Laura,
xviii
,
xxi
,
617
,
670
,
676
; religious conversion of,
xxiii
; use of language,
xxix
,
665
,
723
; use of sestina form,
530
; allusions to works of in
Canzoniere
,
533
,
537
,
541
,
543
,
544
,
545
,
546
,
547
,
554
,
557
,
564
,
565
,
569
,
573
,
578
,
587
,
593–94
,
597
,
616
,
624
,
647
,
657
,
661
,
680
,
681
,
682
,
699
,
711
,
712
,
716
,
718
,
725
; and metamorphosis,
535
; on papacy,
581
,
608
; on Emperor Constantine I,
609
; themes from in
Canzoniere
,
611
; on Harrowing of Hell,
717
Dating, of individual poems in
Canzoniere
,
ix
; of Canzone 23,
532
; of Sonnet 34,
545
; of Sonnet 40,
548
; of Sonnet 41,
549
; of Sonnet 49,
553
; of Canzone 53,
555
; of Sonnet 64,
561
; of Sestina 66,
562
; of Sonnet 79,
571
; of Sonnet 107,
585–86
; of Sonnets 113–114,
588
; of Sonnet 125 and Canzone 126,
596
; of Canzone 128,
599
; of Canzone 129,
601
; of Sonnets 130–134,
603
; of Sonnet 136,
607
; of Sonnet 176,
625–26
; of Sonnet 179,
627
; of Sonnet 188,
631
; of Sonnet 194,
634
; of Sonnet 196,
634
; of Canzone 207,
640
; of Sonnet 208,
641
; of Sonnet 212,
643
; of Sonnet 249,
660
; of Sonnet 265,
669
; of Sonnet 278,
676
; of Sonnet 300,
686
; of Canzone 323,
697
; of Ballata 324,
698
; of Canzone 359,
717
.
See also
Chronology
Death: Petrarch’s preoccupation with in later poems,
xxv
; Petrarch’s rendering of Laura’s,
xxxiii
,
xxxiv
,
670
,
697
; of Laura and subdivisions of
Canzoniere
,
666–67
; of Laura and chronology of poems in
Canzoniere
,
669–70
; critical debate on contemplation of suicide by Petrarch,
670
,
671
; connection with love in Sonnet 296,
685
; exact date of Laura’s,
706
Decameron. See
Boccaccio
Declarative mode, implications of use of,
566
Derrida, Jacques,
xxxiii
Descort
(dissent),
583
Desire, and St. Augustine’s theory of language,
595
Diez, Friedrich Christian,
626
Donation of Constantine,
608
Dondi, Giovanni, of Padua,
658
Doubling: of metaphors in Sonnet 40,
549
; of consonants and adverbial phrases in Canzone 50,
553
Editing, author’s notes on spelling and punctuation,
ix
Elision: use of in Sonnet 303,
688
; and repetitions in Double Sestina 332,
704
.
See also
Alliteration
;
Sibilants
Endymion, myth of Selene and,
654
Ennius,
630
Eros, and guises of love,
522
d’Este family,
599
Etymology: Petrarch’s exploration of,
xxviii
,
xxxii
,
xxxiii
; Cicero’s definition of,
xxxi
; and plays on Laura’s name,
523–24
; and Sonnet 146,
613
Europe, Petrarch on northern regions of,
539
Eurydice, myth of,
704
Ferrari, Severino,
ix
,
x
Ficino,
673
Florence: politics of,
625
; recall of Petrarch from exile,
677
Franceschino degli Albizzi,
681
Frottola
(tall tale),
583
Gellrich, Jesse M.,
xxvii
Gesualdo,
678
Gianfigliazzi, Geri,
627
Giovanna (Queen of Naples),
592
Glory, and Virtue as personae of canzone,
591
God, theology of Canzone 366 and,
728
Golden Age, allusions to classical,
553
Gonzaga family,
599
Graves, Robert,
536
Gray, Thomas,
637
Guilt, projection of Petrarch’s onto Laura,
530
Guinizelli, Guido,
564
,
574
,
611
,
681
Hannibal,
582
Harrowing of Hell, reference to,
717
Helen, myth of,
665
Heraclitus,
552
Heresy, Church’s idea of,
608
History: Petrarch and alienation from,
xxi
; and sonnets late in
Part I
of
Canzoniere
,
xxx
; comparison of Laura to tragic female figures of,
664–65
Homer,
630
Horace,
xiv
,
521
,
536
,
559
,
588
,
652
Hugh of St. Victor,
xxvii
,
xxviii
,
xxxi
Humor: and gravity in sonnets of Petrarch,
xxiv–xxv
; comic struggles between styles of love in Sonnets 67–69,
562
.
See also
Satire
Index of Forbidden Books (Church),
607
Isabel of Lorraine,
577
Islam, reference to,
540
Italy: conditions in during last months of Petrarch’s life,
xi
; history of invasions from north,
539
.
See also
Florence
;
Naples
;
Politics
;
Rome
Jason, myth of Argonauts and,
648
,
665
Jealousy, and anger in Sonnet 196,
635
Jove, myth of,
536
Juno, myth of,
549