Why Avignon and the Vaucluse? The Organization of the Petrarch Seminar
The Duality in Petrarch: Avignon vs.
the Valley of Vaucluce
The Goal of the Seminar
Thematic Organization of the Seminar
SYLLABUS
Works Studied
SYLLABUS
PETRARCH AND PROVENCE : BETWEEN SECLUSION AND THE WORLD
June 30-July 25, 2008
June 30 Letter to Posterity; Sen. XVI, 1, Fam. XXIV, 2., 3, and 4.
July 1 Fam. I, 1, 7 and 9; IV, 1.
July 2 Seminar meets in Vaucluse
Selections from Petrarch's lyric poetry and a note in Petrarch's copy
of Virgil.
Report: Petrarch, Troubadour Poet?
July 3 The Secret , Bk. 1 and Confessions , Bk. 8
July 7 The Secret , Bk. 2 -- Report: Augustine, De vera religione
July 8 The Secret , Bk. 3 -- Report: Griselda: Petrarch, Boccaccio, and Chaucer
July 9 Petrarch in the Vaucluse
Petrarch, Invective against a Doctor
July 10 Petrarch in the Vaucluse -- Report: Africa , Bk. 5
July 14 Petrarch in the Vaucluse -- Report: De otio
July 15 De vita solitaria -- Report: Gerardo
July 16 De vita solitaria
July 17 De vita solitaria -- Report: Avignon under the Popes
July 21 Book without a Name -- Report: Life of Cola da Rienzo
July 22 Book without a Name
Prefaces to the Histories and Lives of
Romulus and Tullus Hostilius
Report: Familiares, XXIV (Letters to
the Ancients)
July 23 Seminar meets in Vaucluse
Fam. XII, 10; Sen. I, 5.
Report: On His Own Ignorance
July 24 Conclusion: Organized by two members of seminar