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Roberto Antonelli, Rerum Volgarium Fragmenta
Università degli studi di Firenze storia e tutela dei beni archeologici, artistici, archivistici e librari curriculum beni artistici 2020
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- Genesis and History: Petrarca's "Rerum vulgarium fragmenta" (RVF) revolves around 1348 as a pivotal year ("mutatio animi"). The work, particularly its "Forma Correggio" (1344-1350), underwent revisions until 1374, establishing Petrarca's unique identity while acknowledging Dante's influence. Laura's symbolic death is crucial for the RVF's bipartite structure, transforming love into a sublimated, modern lyric, and creating a "book of poetry" distinct from Dante's "book of memory."
- Structure and Redactions: The RVF's structure reflects a conscious autobiographical journey, with Laura's death and the author's own death serving as key delimiters. Petrarca meticulously crafted the work's internal coherence through metric genres and symbolic numbers. Multiple redactions (Correggio, Chigi, Vaticano) highlight continuous refinement, especially in the "in morte" section and the symbolic "Canzone alla Vergine." Petrarca emphasized the RVF's structural unity, which later printed editions sometimes compromised.
- Thematic Content: The primary theme is love, explored as a journey from youthful error to spiritual redemption. Laura functions as a central, symbolic figure, representing vernacular poetry and guiding the poet's intellectual and penitential path. Petrarca uses ego metamorphoses (lauro, cigno, sasso, fonte) and the interplay of personal and universal human experience to explore the soul's contradictions. Themes of death, time, memory, and the tension between body and soul lead to deep meditations on the human condition and the quest for unity. The RVF's blend of classical and romance traditions, sophisticated rhetoric, and introspection establishes Petrarca as a pivotal new European intellectual and a model for modern lyric poetry.
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