Petrarch and the Vision of Rome

Petrarch’s enthusiasm for the eternal city is balanced by a deep sense of perishability and death. Both visions – the Classical and the Augustinian – are fused into a double perspective in Petrarch’s description of Rome, transformed both by the harsh political conditions of the fourteenth century as...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Unn Falkeid
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Oslo Library 2017-12-01
Series:Acta ad Archaeologiam et Artium Historiam Pertinentia
Online Access:https://journals.uio.no/acta/article/view/5793