Petrarch
By: edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Contributors: Bloom, Harold, 1930-
Series: Modern critical views
Publisher: Chelsea House; Infobase Publishing (Facts on File/Chelsea House)
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
Subjects: Petrarca, Francesco, -- 1304-1374 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Italian literature -- History and criticism.
Notes: Includes index.

Bibliography, p. 163-165.
Table of contents: title: Contents, Scipio vs. Laura / Aldo S. Bernardo; title: The ascent of Mt. Ventoux and the crisis of allegory / Robert M. Durling; title: The fig tree and the laurel / John Freccero; title: The Canzoniere and the language of the self / Giuseppe Mazzotta; title: Negative stylistics / Marguerite Waller; title: Petrarch and the humanist hermeneutic / Thomas M. Greene; title: Classical heritage and Petrarchan self-consciousness in the literary emergence of the interior "I" / Aldo Scaglione; title: The figure of the reader in Petrarch's Secretum / Victoria Kahn.