The Cambridge Companion to Petrarch - Title page

pp iii-iii

Copyright page

pp iv-iv

Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-ix

Contributors

pp x-xiii

Acknowledgements

pp xiv-xiv

Chronology

pp xv-xviii

Glossary

pp xix-xxii

Introduction

pp 1-10

Part I - Lives of Petrarch

pp 11-36

1 - Poetry in motion

pp 13-25

2 - Petrarch and his friends

pp 26-36

Part II - Petrarch's works: Italian

pp 37-84

3 - Rerum vulgarium fragmenta: structure and narrative

pp 39-50

4 - Making the Rerum vulgarium fragmenta

pp 51-62

5 - Petrarch's singular love lyric

pp 63-73

6 - The Triumphi

pp 74-84

Part III - Petrarch's works: Latin

pp 85-138

7 - The Latin hexameter works: Epystole, Bucolicum carmen, Africa

pp 87-99

8 - The defense of poetry in the Secretum

pp 100-110

9 - De vita solitaria and De otio religioso: the perspective of the guest

pp 111-119

10 - Epistolary Petrarch

pp 120-138

Part IV - Petrarch's interlocutors

pp 139-176

11 - Petrarch and the ancients

pp 141-153

12 - Petrarch and the vernacular lyric past

pp 154-166

13 - Petrarch's adversaries: the Invectives

pp 167-176

Part V - Petrarch's afterlife

pp 177-218

14 - Petrarch and the Humanists

pp 179-190

15 - Bembo and Italian Petrarchism

pp 191-200