Petrarch Commentary and Exegesis in Renaissance Italy: Introduction
Petrarch Commentary and Exegesis in Renaissance Italy: Introduction
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文艺复兴时期意大利彼特拉克的评论和注释:简介
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10.1080/00751634.2020.1698502
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2019
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0.3
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Gilson S
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Gilson S
The four essays brought together in this mini-special issue all derive from work undertaken as part of a three-year collaborative research project, Petrarch Commentary and Exegesis in Renaissance Italy, c. 1350-c. 1650, funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. 1 Three essays have their origin in papers delivered at an international workshop organised as part of the project and entitled ‘Petrarch Commentary and Exegesis in Renaissance Italy’. Held in Venice at the Palazzo Pesaro Papafava in Cannaregio on 11–12 September 2018, the workshop brought together six speakers and a further eleven discussants. The aim was to interrogate the genres, critical lexicon, material forms, and cultural significance of exegesis on Petrarch’s vernacular poetry in fifteenthand sixteenth-century Italy. 2 What were the principal exegetical modes employed in both commentaries and academic lectures? What material forms did they assume in both manuscript and print? What interrelationships do we find both amongst the various commentaries on Petrarch, as well as between commentaries and academic lectures? What functions, exegetical or otherwise, do paratextual materials, including lives, illustrations, and even rhyming dictionaries and related materials, have in texts that deal with the interpretation of Petrarch’s vernacular poetry? These were some of the questions debated and problematised in the six papers and accompanying discussions.The event also provided an early opportunity for the postdoctoral fellows on the project–Giacomo Comiati and Lorenzo Sacchini, along with a former fellow, Francesco Venturi–to present their extensive work in gathering materials for a database of exegetical activity related to both the Rerum vulgarium fragmenta and the Triumphi in Italy, c. 1350-c. 1650. The database, now known as PERI (Petrarch Exegesis in Renaissance Italy: https://petrarch. mml. ox. ac. uk/), was subsequently launched in beta-form at an event at the Taylor Institute in Oxford in December 2018. At the concluding AHRC-sponsored project conference held at the University of Leeds on 12–13 December 2019, the team then launched an updated and more definitive version of the database. PERI is a free, fully searchable catalogue of print and manuscript copies of commentaries, of lectures, and of other modes of exegesis and forms of assistance for readers, such as lives, annotations, short notes, indexes, and related material. It also includes a limited number of other