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

诗人兼人文主义者弗朗切斯科·彼得拉卡（Francesco Petrarca，1304- 1374）或彼特拉克（Petrarch）至今仍是意大利最具代表性和影响力的白话诗人之一。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的最高典范，实际上也是高雅文学风格的典范。它在英国、德国、法国、西班牙、意大利和其他地方催生了无数的崇拜者和模仿者。在意大利，彼特拉克的诗歌为意大利语的发展和规范提供了基础。这个项目设想了一个为期3年的研究合作，重点是生产和传播的评论和其他训诂著作彼特拉克的白话诗（即他的'Canzoniere'或'Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta'和他的'凯旋'）在文艺复兴时期的意大利。这项合作涉及沃里克的文艺复兴研究中心，利兹的语言、文化和社会学院，以及曼彻斯特的艺术、语言和文化学院和约翰·莱兰兹研究所。随着彼特拉克的声誉和影响力的上升，出现了，特别是在15世纪末和16世纪，对他的两部白话诗歌作品进行了丰富而广泛的评论。在手稿和越来越多的印刷，我们发现超过20个主要的全长评论（许多在多个重印），几百个项目的其他注释，如在版本，公共和私人讲座（'lezioni'），对话和论文注释。然而，相当值得注意的是，特别是考虑到彼特拉克的影响力、传播力和跨国吸引力，没有人试图对这一批判性解释的整体进行编目或理解。这个雄心勃勃的合作项目旨在解决这一忽视，并奠定了基础，为所有未来的研究在意大利的情况下，并考虑到意大利的形成作用，在这一时期，研究彼特拉克的来世在各种其他欧洲背景-通过提供以下：1。第一个完全可搜索的在线人口普查彼特拉克评论，公共和私人的经验教训和相关著作（c。1350- 1650年）。该数据库将包括丰富的信息，作者，打印机，dedicatees，paratexts（语料库是特别丰富的注释，生活，评论，插图，和地图）。2.一个数字图书馆，其中有75篇评注/注释的全部数字化文本，可供读者查阅3。通过上传到国家和国际联合会研究目录的强化地方目录记录，向全世界的研究人员展示了一套以普查为基础的丰富目录记录。10篇学术文章和两套会议记录，将提供以下方面的开创性研究：（i）手稿和印刷品中各种作品的传播，其流通机制以及特定印刷商的利益/作用;（ii）批评讨论的主要类型（例如，公共阅读，评论，对话），从而确定在何种程度上的内容和策略的讨论中使用不同的体裁;（iii）之间的互动主要评论员和其他注释（不仅对彼特拉克，但也对古典和白话作家），和哲学的利益和引文的做法选择评论员。5.一个国际研讨会将考虑在意大利以外的这一时期对彼特拉克的评论。一个长期在线展览（基于数字图书馆）、在威尼斯马尔恰纳图书馆举办为期一个月的展览（计划已进入后期阶段）、作家讲习班和学校参观。由于对彼特拉克的评论/注释作为一个整体知之甚少，该项目将确定其轮廓，建立一个新的研究领域，吸引文学，语言，哲学，科学，宗教，印刷和抄写文化的专家。

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.