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Mazzotta, Giuseppe Francesco was born on January 1, 1942 in Curinga, Calabria, Italy. Son of Pasquale and Rosa (Anania) Mazzotta.
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(The Worlds of Petrarch) Author: Giuseppe Mazzotta published on (November, 1993)
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The Worlds of Petrarch (Duke Monographs in Medieval & Renaissance Studies) by Giuseppe Mazzotta (1993-10-20)
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The Worlds of Petrarch (Duke Monographs in Medieval and Renaissance Studies)
( At the center of Petrarch's vision, announcing a new wa...)
At the center of Petrarch's vision, announcing a new way of seeing the world, was the individual, a sense of the self that would one day become the center of modernity as well. This self, however, seemed to be fragmented in Petrarch's work, divided among the worlds of philosophy, faith, and love of the classics, politics, art, and religion, of Italy, France, Greece, and Rome. In recent decades scholars have explored each of these worlds in depth. In this work, Giuseppe Mazzotta shows for the first time how all these fragmentary explorations relate to each other, how these separate worlds are part of a common vision. Written in a clear and passionate style, The Worlds of Petrarch takes us into the politics of culture, the poetic imagination, into history and ethics, art and music, rhetoric and theology. With this encyclopedic strategy, Mazzotta is able to demonstrate that the self for Petrarch is not a unified whole but a unity of parts, and, at the same time, that culture emerges not from a consensus but from a conflict of ideas produced by opposition and dark passion. These conflicts, intrinsic to Petrarch's style of thought, lead Mazzotta to a powerful rethinking of the concepts of "fragments" and "unity" and, finally, to a new understanding of the relationship between them.
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Giuseppe Francesco Mazzotta
Edit ProfileItalian language and literature educator
Giuseppe Francesco Mazzotta, Italian language and literature educator. National Endowment for Humanities fellow Cornell Univercity, 1977, Guggenheim Foundation fellow Yale University, 1986-1987. Fellow American Council Learned Society, Society for the Humanities; member Dante Society American (associate).
Education
Bachelor, U. Toronto, Canada, 1965; Master of Arts, U. Toronto, Canada, 1966; Doctor of Philosophy, Cornell Univercity, 1969.
Career
Assistant professor department romance studies, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, 1969-1970; associate professor department romance studies, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, 1973-1978; professor romance languages, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, 1978-1983; assistant professor department romance studies, Yale University, New Haven, 1970-1972; professor Italian language and literature, Yale University, New Haven, since 1983; associate professor Medieval Institute, U. Toronto, 1972-1973.
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book
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The Worlds of Petrarch (Duke Monographs in Medieval and Renaissance Studies)
( At the center of Petrarch's vision, announcing a new wa...)
- (The Worlds of Petrarch) Author: Giuseppe Mazzotta published on (November, 1993)
- By Giuseppe Mazzotta - The Worlds of Petrarch
- The Worlds of Petrarch (Duke Monographs in Medieval & Renaissance Studies) by Giuseppe Mazzotta (1993-10-20)
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The Worlds of Petrarch (Duke Monographs in Medieval and Renaissance Studies)
Membership
Fellow American Council Learned Society, Society for the Humanities. Member Dante Society American (associate).
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Married Carol Carlson, March 2, 1972. Children: Rosanna, Antony, Paula.
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Roman Catholic