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03131aam a2200385 i 4500 001 62903F028B8A11E6A6C758ADDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20161006010101 008 150923s2016 mau b 001 1 eng c 010 $a 2015037319 020 $a 0674003462 (alk. paper) 020 $a 9780674003460 (alk. paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)922970880 040 $a MH/DLC $b eng $e rda $c HLS $d DLC $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d OCLCF $d BDX $d XII $d QGK $d COO $d RCT $d ZCU $d NYP $d STF $d SILO 041 1 $a lat $a lat $h lat 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PQ4496 E29 S33 2016 100 1 $a Petrarca, Francesco, $d 1304-1374, $e author. 240 10 $a Secretum. $l English 245 10 $a My secret book / $c Francesco Petrarca ; edited and translated by Nicholas Mann. 264 1 $a Cambridge, Massachusetts : $b Harvard University Press, $c 2016. 300 $a xvii, 283 pages ; $c 21 cm 490 1 $a The I Tatti Renaissance library ; $v 72 546 $a English translations on rectos with Latin originals on versos. 520 $a "It was by his own account during this period, sometime in 1342-43, when he was still resident at Vaucluse, that Petrarch was visited by a beautiful woman whom he quickly identified as Truth personified. They were immediately joined by an elderly man who turned out to be St Augustine (354-430 AD), to whose writings Petrarch had long been devoted. These facts are related in the Secretum, his Secret Book, which he apparently did not intend for publication, and to which he gives the subtitle "The private conflict of my thoughts." It records the extended discussion that took place in the silent presence of Truth between himself and the Saint, or more exactly between two characters named Franciscus and Augustinus: an intense but somewhat inconclusive three-day dialogue divided into three books and ranging widely over Petrarch's unhappiness and personal problems. Like most of his writings, and in particular those in Latin, the Secretum contains significant elements of autobiography; indeed it is the most intimate and the most fascinating of Petrarch's essays in self-scrutiny. Like most of his accounts of himself, it reveals a writer carefully crafting the image that he will bequeath to posterity, and in this respect is closely complementary to his vernacular lyrics, his letters, and the less personal representations of himself in his Latin treatises. And finally, like almost all his works, it shows evidence of an extended period of composition and revision, and thus obliges us to recognize the chronological distance between the events and the final form in which they are described."--Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-277) and index. 600 10 $a Petrarca, Francesco, $d 1304-1374 $v Fiction. 600 00 $a Augustine, $c Saint, Bishop of Hippo $v Fiction. 700 1 $a Mann, Nicholas, $e translator. $e translator. 830 0 $a I Tatti Renaissance library ; $v 72. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231017030428.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20180703025205.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=62903F028B8A11E6A6C758ADDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search