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- Title
Psalmodie der aporetischen Existenz Francesco Petrarcas Septem psalmi.
- Authors
Worstbrock, Von Franz Josef
- Abstract
Petrarch was the first author who composed new psalms, psalms, as he says, for himself. They imitate by the shape of the verses and the paratactic syntax the characteristic sound of the biblical psalms, but for the rest they are decidedly different from them. As a common ground underlie them the complaint of Petrarch's self about its insoluble involvement in a sinful existence and the call for God's help and mercy. The Seven psalms establish a closed, nevertheless broken cycle, ascending by degrees from the hopeless abyss of the first psalm up to the relief in the fourth and falling then in a renewed breakdown. Unable to overcome the conflict of tormenting self-knowledge and missing will to change for the better, Petrarch's self can hope only for God's help, but God stays in hiding, and it is uncertain, whether he the prayer ever will hear. This dilemma can be traced back to Augustine's theology. Within Petrarch's works the Seven psalms are the first poem of an existential self-analysis and selfprojection.
- Subjects
PETRARCA, Francesco, 1304-1374; PSALMS (Musical form); SYNTAX (Grammar); GOD in Christianity; MERCY of God; SELF-analysis (Psychoanalysis); VERSE drama
- Publication
Romanistisches Jahrbuch, 2011, Vol 61, p241
- ISSN
0080-3898
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
101515/roma.61.10