- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Figures
- Notes on Contributors
-
Introduction
-
1 Petrarch and the ‘barbari Britanni’ -
2 Petrarch solitarius -
3 The Ethics of Ignorance: Petrarch’s Epicurus and Averroës and the Structures of the De Sui Ipsius et Multorum Ignorantia -
4 Petrarch’s Second (and Third) Death -
5 Poets and Heroes in Petrarch’s Africa: Classical and Medieval Sources -
6 Petrarch Reading Dante: The Ascent of Mont Ventoux (Familiares 4. 1) -
7 Petrarch and Cino da Pistoia: A Moment in the Pre-history of the Canzoniere -
8 Petrarch and the Italian Reformation -
9 Petrarch, Sidney, Bruno -
10 Renaissance Misogyny and the Rejection of Petrarch -
11 Impersonations of Laura in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-century Italy -
12 Other Petrarchs in Early Modern England -
13 Thomas Watson’s Hekatompathia and European Petrarchism -
14 The Comedy of Astrophil: Petrarchan Motifs in Sidney’s Astrophil and Stella -
15 Sidney, Spenser, and Political Petrarchism -
16 Petrarch and the Scottish Renaissance Sonnet -
17 Leopardi and Petrarch -
18 Between Tradition and Transgression: Amelia Rosselli’s Petrarch -
19 Nineteenth-century British Biographies of Petrarch -
20 Translating Petrarch - Index
Petrarch, Sidney, Bruno
Petrarch, Sidney, Bruno
- Chapter:
- (p.149) 9 Petrarch, Sidney, Bruno
- Source:
- Petrarch in Britain
- Author(s):
Gatti Hilary
- Publisher:
- British Academy
This chapter traces the more secular spirit of Giordano Bruno's Petrarchism. It suggests that Bruno's originality can be seen in the fact that he brings his Italian experience of the Petrarchan and anti-Petrarchan debate to Britain and that he confronted the principal English Petrarchan poet of his time, Sir Philip Sidney. It discusses Bruno's dedication of the Gli eroici furori to Sidney and his belief that the Petrarchan sonnet is a suitable vehicle for philosophical enquiry in the post-Copernican, infinite universe.
Keywords: Giordano Bruno, Petrarchism, Britain, Sir Philip Sidney, Gli eroici furori, Petrarchan sonnet, philosophical enquiry
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Figures
- Notes on Contributors
-
Introduction
-
1 Petrarch and the ‘barbari Britanni’ -
2 Petrarch solitarius -
3 The Ethics of Ignorance: Petrarch’s Epicurus and Averroës and the Structures of the De Sui Ipsius et Multorum Ignorantia -
4 Petrarch’s Second (and Third) Death -
5 Poets and Heroes in Petrarch’s Africa: Classical and Medieval Sources -
6 Petrarch Reading Dante: The Ascent of Mont Ventoux (Familiares 4. 1) -
7 Petrarch and Cino da Pistoia: A Moment in the Pre-history of the Canzoniere -
8 Petrarch and the Italian Reformation -
9 Petrarch, Sidney, Bruno -
10 Renaissance Misogyny and the Rejection of Petrarch -
11 Impersonations of Laura in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-century Italy -
12 Other Petrarchs in Early Modern England -
13 Thomas Watson’s Hekatompathia and European Petrarchism -
14 The Comedy of Astrophil: Petrarchan Motifs in Sidney’s Astrophil and Stella -
15 Sidney, Spenser, and Political Petrarchism -
16 Petrarch and the Scottish Renaissance Sonnet -
17 Leopardi and Petrarch -
18 Between Tradition and Transgression: Amelia Rosselli’s Petrarch -
19 Nineteenth-century British Biographies of Petrarch -
20 Translating Petrarch - Index
