Morality and the Literary Imagination
Volume 36, Religion and Public Life
In a letter to Boccaccio, Petrarch extolled the virtue of poetry and letters for promoting an understanding of both human nature and morals. Th e letter was designed to console him after hearing a prediction that he was soon to die and that he ought to renounce poetry. Th e prophecy came from an elder renowned for his piety, but Petrarch admonished that too often dishonesty and fraud are couched in religious sentiments. Nothing, not even death, according to Petrarch, ought to divert us from literature. For Petrarch, Virgil was the source for understanding how literary studies not only promote eloquence, but enhance morals. If anything, litera…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4128-0839-2
- EAN: 9781412808392
- Produktnummer: 3786422
- Verlag: Taylor and Francis
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 204 S.
- Masse: H25.4 cm x B17.8 cm 380 g
- Abbildungen: Farb., s/w. Abb.
- Gewicht: 380
Über den Autor
Gabriel R. Ricci is professor of humanities and the chair of the Department of History at Elizabethtown College. He is the author of Time Consciousness: The Philosophical Uses of History and the editor of Transaction's much-admired Religion and Public Life series.
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