Petrarch Commentary and Exegesis in Renaissance Italy, c. 1350-c. 1650

诗人和人文主义者弗朗西斯科·佩特拉卡（1304-74）或佩特拉克至今仍是意大利最具代表性和影响力的本土诗人之一。彼特拉克对诗歌和语言实践的影响在文艺复兴时期的欧洲是划时代的。他的白话诗成为抒情诗乃至高雅文学风格的最高典范。它在英国、德国、法国、西班牙、意大利和其他地方产生了无数的崇拜者和模仿者。在意大利，彼特拉克的诗歌为建立发展和规范意大利语的标准提供了基础。该项目设想了一个为期3年的研究合作，重点是在意大利文艺复兴时期制作和传播关于彼得拉克的白话诗歌（即他的“Canzoniere”或“Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta”和他的“必胜利”）的评论和其他训注著作。此次合作包括华威大学文艺复兴研究中心、利兹大学语言、文化与社会学院、曼彻斯特大学艺术、语言与文化学院和约翰·里兰兹研究所。随着彼特拉克的声誉和影响力的上升，特别是在15世纪末和16世纪，出现了对他的白话诗歌作品的丰富而广泛的批评评论。在手稿和越来越多的印刷中，我们发现了超过20个主要的全长注释（许多是多次重印），数百个其他注释，如版本注释，公开和私人讲座（“lezioni”），对话和论文。然而，相当值得注意的是，特别是考虑到彼特拉克的影响、传播和跨国吸引力，没有人试图对这一批判性解释的整体进行分类或理解。这个雄心勃勃的合作项目旨在解决这一问题，并为意大利背景下的所有未来研究奠定基础，并且考虑到意大利在这一时期的形成作用，为在其他各种欧洲背景下研究彼特拉克的来世奠定基础-提供以下内容：第一个完全可搜索的Petrarch评论，公共和私人课程以及相关著作的在线普查（约1350-c.1650）。数据库将包含大量关于作者、印刷者、献词者、文本的信息（语料库在注释、生活、评论、插图和地图方面尤其丰富）。一个数字图书馆，其中有75篇评论/注释文本的完全数字化，可供公众访问3。在人口普查的基础上，一套丰富的目录记录通过上传到国家和国际联盟研究目录的增强的地方目录记录，向全世界的研究人员展示。10篇学术论文和两套会议论文集将提供以下方面的开创性研究：(i)各种手稿和印刷作品的传播、它们的流通机制和特定印刷商的兴趣/作用；（ii）批判性讨论的主要类型（例如，公开阅读、评论、对话），从而确定讨论中使用的内容和策略在多大程度上因类型而异；（iii）主要诠释者与其他诠释者之间的互动（不仅包括彼特拉克的诠释者，也包括古典和白话作者的诠释者），以及精选诠释者的哲学兴趣和引用实践。5. 一个国际研讨会将考虑对这一时期意大利以外的彼特拉克的评论。一个永久性的在线展览（以数字图书馆为基础），一个在威尼斯马西亚纳图书馆（Marciana library）为期一个月的展览（计划已进入后期阶段），作家研讨会和学校访问。由于对彼得拉克的评论/训诂作为一个整体所知甚少，该项目将定义其轮廓，建立一个新的研究领域，这将吸引文学、语言、哲学、科学、宗教、印刷和誊抄文化方面的专家。

The poet and humanist Francesco Petrarca (1304-74) or Petrarch remains to this day one of Italy's most iconic and influential vernacular poets. Petrarch's influence on poetic and linguistic practice was epoch-defining in Renaissance Europe. His vernacular poetry became the supreme model for lyric poetry and indeed for refined literary style itself. It spawned countless admirers and imitators in England, Germany, France, Spain, Italy and elsewhere. In Italy, Petrarch's poetry provided the basis upon which to establish the standards for developing and regulating the Italian language. This project envisages a 3-year research collaboration focusing on the production and dissemination of commentaries and other exegetical writings upon Petrarch's vernacular verse (that is, his 'Canzoniere' or 'Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta' and his 'Triumphi') in Renaissance Italy. The collaboration involves the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at Warwick, the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies at Leeds, and the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures and John Rylands Research Institute, Manchester. With the rise of Petrarch's reputation and influence came the emergence, especially in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, of a rich and extensive body of critical commentary upon both of his vernacular poetic works. In manuscript and increasingly in print, we find over twenty major full-length commentaries (many in multiple reprints), several hundred items of other exegesis such as annotations in editions, public and private lectures ('lezioni'), dialogues, and treatises. And yet, quite remarkably, especially given Petrarch's influence, diffusion and transnational appeal, no attempt has been made to catalogue or understand as whole this body of critical interpretation. This ambitious collaborative project aims to address this neglect and to lay the foundations for all future research on the Italian context, and, given Italy's formative role in this period, for research on Petrarch's afterlife in a variety of other European contexts - by providing the following:1. the first fully searchable online census of Petrarch commentaries, public and private lessons and related writings (c. 1350-c.1650). The database will incorporate a wealth of information on the authors, printers, dedicatees, paratexts (the corpus is especially rich in annotations, lives, commentaries, illustrations, and maps).2. a digital library with full digitizations of 75 texts of commentary/exegesis made publically accessible3. an enriched set of catalogue records, based on the census, surfaced to a worldwide audience of researchers via enhanced local catalogue records uploaded to the national and international union research catalogues4. 10 academic articles and two sets of conference proceedings which will provide ground-breaking studies of: (i) the diffusion of the various works in both manuscript and print, their mechanisms of circulation and the interests/roles of particular printers; (ii) the major genres of critical discussion (e.g., public readings, commentaries, dialogues), thereby determining the extent to which the content and strategies used in the discussion differed by genre; (iii) the interactions between major commentators and other exegetes (not only on Petrarch but also on classical and vernacular authors), and the philosophical interests and citational practices of select commentators. 5. an international workshop will consider commentary on Petrarch in this period outside Italy.6. a permanent online exhibition (based on the digital library), a month-long exhibition at the Marciana Library, Venice (plans are at an advanced stage), writers' workshops and school visits. Since so little is known about commentary/exegesis on Petrarch as a whole, the project will define its contours, establishing a new field of study that will appeal to specialists across literature, language, philosophy, science, religion, print and scribal culture.