{"product_id":"the-worlds-of-petrarch-giuseppe-mazzotta-9780822313960","title":"The Worlds of Petrarch","description":"At the center of Petrarch's vision, announcing a new way of seeing the world, was the individual, a sense of the self that would one day become the center of modernity as well. This self, however, seemed to be fragmented in Petrarch's work, divided among the worlds of philosophy, faith, and love of the classics, politics, art, and religion, of Italy, France, Greece, and Rome. In recent decades scholars have explored each of these worlds in depth. In this work, Giuseppe Mazzotta shows for the first time how all these fragmentary explorations relate to each other, how these separate worlds are part of a common vision.\u003cbr\u003eWritten in a clear and passionate style, \u003ci\u003eThe Worlds of Petrarch\u003c\/i\u003e takes us into the politics of culture, the poetic imagination, into history and ethics, art and music, rhetoric and theology. With this encyclopedic strategy, Mazzotta is able to demonstrate that the self for Petrarch is not a unified whole but a unity of parts, and, at the same time, that culture emerges not from a consensus but from a conflict of ideas produced by opposition and dark passion. These conflicts, intrinsic to Petrarch's style of thought, lead Mazzotta to a powerful rethinking of the concepts of \"fragments\" and \"unity\" and, finally, to a new understanding of the relationship between them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Giuseppe Mazzotta\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0822313960\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822313960\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/20\/1993\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.70h x 5.30w x 0.70d","brand":"Giuseppe Mazzotta","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47520300171519,"sku":"9780822313960","price":31.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2dac9116-0911-4115-b220-2fa359538e65.jpg?v=1762884760","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-worlds-of-petrarch-giuseppe-mazzotta-9780822313960","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}