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标题：Style, the Muscle of the Soul. Theories on Reading and Writing in Petrarch's Texts
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作者：Unn Falkeid
期刊名称：Quaderni d'italianistica
印刷版ISSN：0226-8043
出版年度：2008
卷号：29
期号：1
页码：21-38
出版社：Canadian Society for Italian Studies
摘要：With his deep passion for the Roman poets and historians and with his effort to transform the cultural agenda through a revival of Antiquity, Petrarch inaugurated new reading and writing practices that would influence and dominate future generations for centuries. Celebrated as the "father of humanism," he articulated a modern conception of authorship and a new understanding of self. However, a close reading of Petrarch's writings reveals from time to time a radical scepticism towards the assumptions underlying the hermeneutics of the humanists. The experience of historicity and of the radical instability of the world challenged the notion of a centred and coherent self. In other words: at the same time that he maintained the connection between authorship and identity Petrarch seemed to formulate as well a deep distrust of the concept of author itself.