Printed Voices
Subtitle: The Renaissance Culture of Dialogue
Contributors: Dorothea Heitsch (Editor); Jean-Fran?ois Vall?e (Editor)
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: October 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780802087065
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Literature - Classics / Criticism; European literature; Literary Criticism; Europe; Renaissance; European - General; Literary Criticism & Collections / European; Dialogue; History and criticism; Renaissance, 1450-1600; Sociology
First sentence: In the beginning was Petrarch's Secretum, a literary form of conversation which took place between two exemplary characters, Francis and Augustine, and proved to have an immense impact on later humanist sensibility.