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

诗人和人文主义者弗朗西斯科·彼得拉卡(Francesco Petrarca，1304-74年)或称彼得拉克，至今仍是意大利最具标志性和最有影响力的本土诗人之一。在文艺复兴时期的欧洲，彼得拉克对诗歌和语言实践的影响是划时代的。他的白话诗成为抒情诗的最高典范，甚至是雅致文体本身的典范。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，彼得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。该项目设想了一项为期3年的研究合作，重点是制作和传播关于彼得拉克在意大利文艺复兴时期的白话诗句(即他的《Canzoniere》或《Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta》和他的《Triumphi》)的评论和其他注释著作。华威文艺复兴研究中心、利兹语言、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·里兰兹研究所参与了这项合作。随着彼得拉克声誉和影响力的上升，特别是在15世纪末和16世纪，出现了对他的两部白话诗歌作品的丰富而广泛的批评性评论。在手稿和越来越多的印刷，我们发现超过二十个主要的完整长度的评论(许多在多个重印)，数百项其他注释，如版本中的注释，公开和私人讲座(‘Lezion’)，对话，和论文。然而，非常值得注意的是，特别是考虑到彼得拉克的影响力、传播力和跨国吸引力，没有人试图将这一批判性解释作为一个整体来分类或理解。这一雄心勃勃的合作项目旨在解决这种忽视，并为未来所有关于意大利背景的研究奠定基础，并鉴于意大利在这一时期的形成作用，通过提供以下内容，研究彼得拉克在其他各种欧洲背景下的来世--1.第一次完全可搜索的彼得拉克评论、公共和私人课程及相关著作的在线普查(约1350-1650)。该数据库将包含有关作者、印刷商、受赠人、副文的丰富信息(语料库中特别丰富的注释、生活、评论、插图和地图)。一个数字图书馆，包括75篇注释/注释文本的完全数字化，可供公众查阅3。以普查为基础的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改进的地方目录记录4向全世界的研究人员呈现。10篇学术文章和两套会议记录，将对以下方面进行开创性的研究：(I)各种作品在手稿和印刷品中的传播，它们的发行机制和特定印刷商的兴趣/作用；(Ii)主要的批评性讨论体裁(例如，公开读物、评论、对话)，从而确定讨论中使用的内容和策略按体裁不同的程度；(Iii)主要评论员与其他训诫之间的互动(不仅关于Petrch，而且还关于古典和白话作家)，以及选定的评论员的哲学兴趣和启迪实践。5.在意大利以外的这一时期，将举办一次国际讲习班，审议关于Petrch的评注。永久在线展览(以数字图书馆为基础)、威尼斯Marciana图书馆为期一个月的展览(计划已进入后期阶段)、作家讲习班和学校参观。由于对彼得拉克的整体评论/注释知之甚少，该项目将确定其轮廓，建立一个新的研究领域，将吸引文学、语言、哲学、科学、宗教、印刷和经文文化的专家。

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.