The Essential Petrarch
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The Essential Petrarch
| Author | Petrarch; edited and translated by Peter Hainsworth |
|---|---|
| Published | 2010 |
| Pages | 250 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | A one-volume selection from Petrarch, edited and translated by Peter Hainsworth — lyrics from the Canzoniere alongside the Latin letters and prose of the fourteenth-century Italian usually credited with beginning humanism’s deliberate recovery of the classical past, the man who hunted through monastic libraries for Cicero’s letters and wrote back to dead authors as if they were correspondents. |
Where I heard about it
- University of Austin — the opening text of Renaissance and Reformation on its Fall 2025 reading list (November 2025), ahead of Erasmus, Pico della Mirandola, Montaigne and Bacon: the course starts with the recovery of antiquity before it gets to the theological split. Full curriculum: UATX Fall Reading List.
Connections
- UATX Fall Reading List — the curriculum this was assigned in.
- The University of Austin — the institution whose course list this is.
- Renaissance — the movement this text opens.
- Classics — what Petrarch was recovering.
- Literature
- Republic of Letters
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.