In his four invectives, Petrarca assails representatives of four prestigious sources of authority in medieval Europe: the science of medicine (Invective contra medicum), ecclesiastical dignity (Contra quendam magni status), scholastic philosophy (De sui ipsius et multorum ignorantia), and French culture (Contra eum qui maledixit Italie). He evidently viewed them as important, since he took the trouble to revise and publish them in his lifetime. As a response to such attacks, Petrarca’s invectives oVer a vital picture of his thought and personality which in many ways complements his other treatises and his collected letters. Petrarca’s literary and social success did not come without a price, and he came under attack from various quarters. As Petrarca’s fame grew, his presence was requested in great cities such as Milan and Venice but he constantly yearned for the more congenial setting of the countryside, and he spent his Wnal years near the village of Arquà outside Padua, where he died in 1374.1 vii He wrote various treatises and dialogues concerning history and moral topics, including On Illustrious Men, On Religious Leisure, On the Solitary Life and Remedies for Good and Ill Fortune. (Later, he began, but did not complete, a series of historical and allegorical celebrations in Italian terzine called Trionfi.) His various friendships with scholars and potentates are recorded in his letters, assembled in the collections called Familiar Letters and Letters of Old Age. Besides the Italian poems that he gradually assembled in the so-called Canzoniere, Petrarca began a Latin epic (left unWnished) about the Roman general Scipio, titled Africa, for which he was crowned as poet laureate in Rome in 1341. At his father’s urging, he studied law in Montpellier and Bologna, and then took minor orders. His father, ser Petracco, was a notary who soon found employment in the papal Curia, which had recently been transferred from Rome to Avignon and the young Francesco grew up in nearby Carpentras. The most celebrated and inXuential man of letters of the Trecento, Francesco Petrarca was born in 1304 in the Tuscan town of Arezzo, where his father had settled after being exiled from his native Florence in 1302. Leonardo Bruni, Dialogi ad Petrum Paulum Histrum Francesco also wrote invectives so that he would be reputed an orator as well as a poet. Introduction O} Franciscus scripsit etiam invectivas, ut non solum poeta, sed etiam orator haberetur. Notes to the Translation Bibliography Index Invective against a Man of High Rank with No Knowledge or Virtue 180 On His Own Ignorance and That of Many Others Invective against a Detractor of Italy Contents: Invective against a physician- Invective against a man of high rank with no knowledge or virtue- On his own ignorance and that of many others- Invective against a detractor of Italy. cm.-(The I Tatti Renaissance library 11) English and Latin text study in English. Invectives / Francesco Petrarca edited and translated by David Marsh. The i tatti renaissance library harvard university press cambridge, massachusetts london, england 2003Ĭopyright © 2003 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Series design by Dean Bornstein Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Petrarca, Francesco, 1304–1374. Trapp Carlo Vecce Ronald Witt Jan Ziolkowski Allen Brian Copenhaver Vincenzo Fera †Albinia de la Mare Claudio Leonardi Walther Ludwig Nicholas Mann Silvia RizzoĪdvisory Committee Joseph Connors, Chairman Robert Black †Leonard Boyle Virginia Brown †Salvatore Camporeale Caroline Elam Arthur Field Anthony Grafton Hanna Gray †Cecil Grayson Ralph Hexter Jill Kraye Francesco Lo Monacoĭavid Marsh John Monfasani John O’Malley David Quint Christine Smith Rita Sturlese Francesco Tateo Mirko Tavoni J. The i tatti renaissance library James Hankins, General EditorĮditorial Board Michael J.
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