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10. The Standarization of Poetry and Petrarch

Texts:

• Petrarch, The Canzoniere or Rerum vulgarium fragmenta. Bloomington; Indianapolis: LOOMINGTON;Indiana University Press, 1999 (Selection of poems: 1, 3, 35, 60, 61, 62, 90, 126, 132, 310, 336, 349, 364, 366)
• Petrarch, Ascent of Mont Ventoux. In: Epistolae Familiares, IV, 1. Wikipedia and an English online version
• Women and Petrarchist:
  • Vitorria Colonna
    • Scrivo sol per sfogar l’interna doglia IT EN
  • Isabella Morra
    • Ecco ch’un’altra volta, o valle inferna IT EN
    • I fieri assalti di crudel fortuna IT
    • D’un alto monte onde si scorge il mare IT
  • Gaspara Stampa (Selection available here and here)
    • Quando fu prima il mio signor concetto
    • Chi vuol conoscer, donne, il mio signore
    • Se così come sono abietta e vile
    • Amor m’ha fatto tal ch’io vivo in foco
• Anti-petarchism: Francesco Berni (“Chiome d’argento fino, irte e attorte”) IT

Studies:

• Berdan, J.M., “A definition of Petrarchismo.” Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 24 (1909): 699-710.
• Wilkins, E.H., “A General Survey of Renaissance Petrarchism” Comparative Literature, 2 (1950): 327-342.
• (Optional) Forster, L.W., “European Petrarchism as Training in Poetic Diction,” Italian Studies 18 (1963): 19-32. Re-printed in Id. The icy Fire - Five Studies in European Petrarchism, Cambridge, 1969.