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- Title
Exile and Petrarch's Reinvention of Authorship.
- Authors
Hooper, Laurence E.
- Abstract
This article demonstrates a systematic connection between the novelty of Petrarch's authorship and his self-definition as an exile. Petrarch employs the unusual term exilium/esilio to substantiate his unprecedented claim that literature is a legally valid officium (civic role). Following Dante, Petrarch grounds his exilic authorship in the Christian discourse of peregrinatio: life as pilgrimage through exile. But Petrarch's new allows him a measure of control over literary creation that no prior Italian writer had enjoyed. This is especially true of the "Canzoniere," Petrarch's compilation of his vernacular lyrics, whose singularity functions as a proxy for its author's selfhood.
- Subjects
PETRARCA, Francesco, 1304-1374; AUTHORSHIP; EXILE (Punishment) in literature; WAYFARING life in literature; LEGAL status of exiles; EPISTOLAE Familiares (Book); CANZONIERE (Book); MEDIEVAL &; Renaissance (Literary period)
- Publication
Renaissance Quarterly, 2016, Vol 69, Issue 4, p1217
- ISSN
0034-4338
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1086/690312