Karlheinz Stierle
Petrarch
Details about the book
An Intellectual in 14th Century Europe
- date of publication: 08.09.2003
- 976 Pages
- Hanser Verlag
- hardcover
- ISBN 978-3-446-20382-2
- Deutschland: 45,00 €
- Österreich: 46,30 €
Only in Avignon, unofficial capital of 14th century Europe and historical way-station between ancient Rome and modern Paris, could Francesco Petrarca become a singular figure at the threshold of a new epoch. Unlike Dante, whose worldview still bears the traces of a vertical, metaphysical order, Petrarch's world is determined by diversity and horizontalism. Karlheinz Stierle presents Petrarch not only as a writer but also as a political being and one of the first pioneers of modernism.
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