Boccaccio, Petrarch, and Peter Damian: Two Models of the Humanist Intellectual
2006; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 121; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/mln.2006.0026
ISSN1080-6598
Autores Tópico(s)Medieval Literature and History
ResumoThis article focuses on Giovanni Boccaccio and Francesco Petrarca's different approaches to the interpretation of a preeminent figure of medieval religious thought, Saint Peter Damian. Following Petrarch's request of information about the saint, Boccaccio wrote a Life of Saint Peter Damian, in which the author transformed a medieval hagiographical source into a narrative modeled on his humanistic ideal of intellectual. Petrarch included Peter Damian among the exemplary figures of solitude in his De vita solitaria without utilizing Boccaccio's biography. The distance between the two connected treatments of Damian's biography reveals Petrarch and Boccaccio's different conceptions of the role of the intellectual in the Christian society in early Humanism.
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