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A Middle English Translation from Petrarch's Secretum

Hardcover • 2018 • 1. edition

A Middle English Translation from Petrarch's Secretum

By Francesco Petrarca

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This is the first printed edition of a landmark work in the history of English humanism and perhaps English drama: a translation of part of Petrarch's Secretum into English verse. Copied at Winchester Cathedral in 1487, it is only the third work by Petrarch to be translated into English and is the most accurate and extensive translation from his work before the 1530s. It offers an insight into early English responses to humanist learning, with its balance of classical and religious ideas, and to...Show more

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9780198828334

Publisher

Early English Text Society

Published year

2018

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1

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A Middle English Translation from Petrarch's Secretum

Format

Hardcover

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