Petrarch and the Textural Origins of Interpretation
Brill,
2007
isbn 978 9004 16322 5
Petrarch and the Textual Origins of Interpretation investigates one of the most far-reaching aspects of Petrarch research and interpretation: the essential interplay between Petrarch’s texts and their material preparation and reception. The volume’s essays examine various facets of the interaction between Petrarchan philology and hermeneutics, working from the premise that in Petrarch’s works philological issues are so authorially driven that we cannot read or interpret him without understanding and applying the material facts of his production and the history of its reception.
TEODOLINDA BAROLINI is Lorenzo Da Ponte Professor of Itailan at Columbia University and the author of Dante’s Poets (Princeton 1984), The Undivine Comedy (Princeton 1992) and Dante and the Origins of Italian Literary Culture (Fordham 2006).
H. WAYNE STOREY is Professor of Italian and Director of Medieval Studies at Indiana University. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of Textual Cultures (journal of the Society for Textual Scholarship). His studies of Petrarch include Transcription and Visual Poetics in the Early Italian Lyric (Garland 1993), «Voce e grafia nei Triumphi» (1999), «Canzoniere e Petrarchismo: un paradigma di orientamento formale e materiale» (2007) and his essays in the 2003-2004 facsimile edition and commentary of the Rerum vulgarium fragmenta (Antenore).
