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'Were I the librarian of any European or American University or National library I would order Petrarch's English Laurels immediately. It is an important and very accurate reference book filling a gap in European studies. Any major library should keep it on its shelves.' Mario Domenichelli, Prof. of Comparative Literatures, University of Florence, Italy 'Petrarch's English Laurels offers a comprehensive, chronological presentation of the evidence for Petrarch's evolving reception and influence throughout the long English Renaissance, 1475-1700. Here is all the evidence scholars need as set forth in the age's printed books for a detailed and accurate analysis of Petrarch's role and reputation during that time. Boswell and Braden excerpt references to Petrarch's life as well as to his writings including summary allusions, quotations, and translations. Generous old-spelling quotations from the primary sources provide full contexts for these excerpts, supplemented by concise, authoritative editorial notes on the authors and works in which they appear. Readers will learn from this work that Petrarch's influence on English love poetry was almost a sideline compared to his influence on such unrelated spheres as Reformation polemic, above all the attack on the papacy, but also moral instruction in general ranging from strictures against dancing to his warnings about second marriages. Petrarch's English Laurels will be mined for evidence in support of a very wide variety of studies in many disciplines, including religious and cultural history, philosophy, literature, and rhetoric.' Steven W. May, Emory University, USA 'This is an excellent scholarly resource, the result of considerable investigation and transcription. Since a hundred years separate the active life of Petrarch from the first printed reference, some indication at least of intervening manuscript references to his works would have been invaluable, although at probably impossible costs in labour and time for the compilers. As it is, the work offers a fascinating insight into the English Renaissance... Perhaps this is not quite simply the specialist scholarly reference work it seems at first look...' Reference Review 'This attractive volume facilitates reconsideration of Petrarch's influence... It will be indispensable to anyone interested in lyric poetry and poetics, religious polemic, and comparative approaches to the Renaissance in England and on the Continent.' Library '...impressively researched, attractively organized, and splendidly useful...' The Spenser Review

"'Were I the librarian of any European or American University or National library I would order Petrarch's English Laurels immediately. It is an important and very accurate reference book filling a gap in European studies. Any major library should keep it on its shelves.' Mario Domenichelli, Prof. of Comparative Literatures, University of Florence, Italy 'Petrarch's English Laurels offers a comprehensive, chronological presentation of the evidence for Petrarch's evolving reception and influence throughout the ""long"" English Renaissance, 1475-1700. Here is all the evidence scholars need as set forth in the age's printed books for a detailed and accurate analysis of Petrarch's role and reputation during that time. Boswell and Braden excerpt references to Petrarch's life as well as to his writings including summary allusions, quotations, and translations. Generous old-spelling quotations from the primary sources provide full contexts for these excerpts, supplemented by concise, authoritative editorial notes on the authors and works in which they appear. Readers will learn from this work that Petrarch's influence on English love poetry was almost a sideline compared to his influence on such unrelated spheres as Reformation polemic, above all the attack on the papacy, but also moral instruction in general ranging from strictures against dancing to his warnings about second marriages. Petrarch's English Laurels will be mined for evidence in support of a very wide variety of studies in many disciplines, including religious and cultural history, philosophy, literature, and rhetoric.' Steven W. May, Emory University, USA 'This is an excellent scholarly resource, the result of considerable investigation and transcription. Since a hundred years separate the active life of Petrarch from the first printed reference, some indication at least of intervening manuscript references to his works would have been invaluable, although at probably impossible costs in labour and time for"

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Jackson Campbell Boswell is Scholar in Residence at the Folger Shakespeare Library, USA. Gordon McMurry Braden is Linden Kent Memorial Professor of English at the University of Virginia, USA.

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