One book that hasn't been mentioned, which has one of the best
treatments of the Rime sparse in English is Tom Greene's _The Light in
Troy_. Its central chapters on Petrarch deal with some of the
complexities between classical and christian poetry and the psychology
of eroticism in the context of literary history. And it reminds us (as
Hannibal Hamlin does) that Petrarch wrote much more than just a
canzoniere. It also has two wonderful chapters on Ronsard's Amours and
Wyatt's Petrarchan translations which fill out the contours of
"petrarchism" with minute, moving readings of specific poems.
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>> Has anybody teased out any relationships between Petrarchism and
>> Christianity in the Early Modern Period? Is there an argument that
>> they were oppositional movements/beliefs/philosophical systems or
>> that they simply ran in tandem? Can anyone recommend some reading I
>> might find useful? Somebody suggested C.S. Lewis. _The Allegory of
>> Love_. I’ve read that but didn’t find it very helpful.
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>> Thanks!
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>> Ian Lipke
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