00000nam a22000004a 4500 UP-1685523046128975835 Buklod 20230607154436.0 m |o d | cr ||||||||||| 230525s2022 xx u d 9780226807720 (ebook) UKOUP DCAL rda eng DG 442 R77 2022eb Rubini, Rocco, author. Posterity inventing tradition from Petrarch to Gramsci Rocco Rubini . Chicago, IL University of Chicago Press, 2022. 1 online resource (xiv, 342 pages) text rdacontent computer rdamedia online resource rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index Frontmatter --Contents --Acknowledgments --List of Abbreviations --|tIntroduction: Whole or Nothing --1 Primi and Ultimi: Petrarch's Corpus --2 The Purpose of Literary Criticism: Francesco De Sanctis's (Anti-) Petrarchism --|t3 "Do not grow weary of reading, for I do not grow weary of writing": Goldoni's Reform of Italian Literature --4 The Vichian Resurrection of Commedia dell'Arte: Reciprocating Modernity between Italy and France --5 Remembering Is Not Thinking: Croce, Gramsci, and Italian Intellectual Autobiography --Conclusion: The Last Renaissance Man --Index Reading a range of Italian works, Rubini considers the active transmittal of traditions through generations of writers and thinkers. Rocco Rubini studies the motives and literary forms in the making of a "tradition," not understood narrowly, as the conservative, stubborn preservation of received conventions, values, and institutions, but instead as the deliberate effort on the part of writers to transmit a reformulated past across generations. Leveraging Italian thinkers from Petrarch to Gramsci, with stops at prominent humanists in between--including Giambattista Vico, Carlo Goldoni, Francesco De Sanctis, and Benedetto Croce--Rubini gives us an innovative lens through which to view an Italian intellectual tradition that is at once premodern and modern, a legacy that does not depend on a date or a single masterpiece, but instead requires the reader to parse an expanse of writings to uncover deeper transhistorical continuities that span six hundred years. Whether reading work from the fourteenth century, or from the 1930s, Rubini elucidates the interplay of creation and the reception underlying the enactment of tradition, the practice of retrieving and conserving, and the revivification of shared themes and intentions that connect thinkers across time. Building on his award-winning book, The Other Renaissance, this will prove a valuable contribution for intellectual historians, literary scholars, and those invested in the continuing humanist legacy Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374. Humanism Italy. Electronic books. Italy Intellectual life. Electronic resource. Available for the University of the Philippines Diliman on campus and remote access via EBSCO eBooks. Click here to access thru OpenAthens http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=3028256 FO UPD DCAL DG 442 R77 2022EB Electronic Resource