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Author:

Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.

Title:

The secret / by Francesco Petrarch ; edited with an introduction by Carol E. Quillen.

Publisher:

Bedford/St. Martin's,

Copyright Date:

c2003

Description:

xiii, 178 p. : ill., map ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Biographical fiction.
Petrarca, Francesco,--1304-1374--Fiction.
Augustine,--Saint, Bishop of Hippo--Fiction.

Other Authors:

Quillen, Carol E.

Other Titles:

Secretum. English

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 168-169) and index.

Contents:

Petrarch's Secret and Renaissance humanism: Petrarch and the humanist movement ; The secret ; A note on the translation -- The secret -- Related documents: Petrarch, First letter to Marcus Tullius Cicero, dated June 16, 1345 ; Augustine, from Confessions, finished ca. 400 C.E. ; Virgil, from Aeneid, ca. 20 B.C.E., and Augustine, from The city of God, finished ca. 426 C.E. -- Appendixes: Glossary of names ; A Petrarch chronology (1304-1374) ; Questions for consideration.

Series:

The Bedford series in history and culture

ISBN:

9780312154387 (pbk.)
0312154380 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)53336687

LCCN:

2002111604

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

UPAX334 -- Upper Iowa University - Henderson-Wilder Library (Fayette)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)