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- Title: Mandelstam's Petrarch Translations and His Humanist Archaeology (Osip Mandelstam and Francesco Petrarca) (Essay)
- Author : Annali d'Italianistica
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 218 KB
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Introduction It is difficult to overestimate Petrarch's influence on the modern lyric. Beyond his direct influence--his popularization of the sonnet and the lyric sequence; the dozen tropes and conceits we take for granted today (the cataloguing of physical traits of the beloved, the use of the environment as symbolic of an internal state, etc.); his use of a unified persona throughout the collection--even his indirect influence as progenitor of the modern lyric cannot be avoided. But most important for his presence in the work of Osip Mandelstam, Petrarch is the primary exemplar of Humanism, a movement Mandelstam would increasingly turn to after the Bolshevik Revolution. Two aspects of Humanism will be important here: the archaeological ability of a poem to revive not only the words of another poet, but that poet's historical and ethical values, a central textual methodology of Petrarchism; (2) and the focus on and concern for the individual human being that we date from the Renaissance and goes by the term "humanism" with a lower-case h. Both of these sets of values are central to Mandelstam's work, especially in the Soviet period, when these values, as well as Mandelstam himself, were under harsh attack. All such values can especially be observed in his translations of Petrarch.