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- The Cambridge Companion to Petrarch
- The Cambridge Companion to Petrarch
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Book part
- Chronology
- Glossary
- Introduction
- Part I Lives of Petrarch
- Part II Petrarch's works: Italian
- Part III Petrarch's works: Latin
- 7 The Latin hexameter works: Epystole, Bucolicum carmen, Africa
- 8 The defense of poetry in the Secretum
- 9 De vita solitaria and De otio religioso: the perspective of the guest
- 10 Epistolary Petrarch
- Part IV Petrarch's interlocutors
- Part V Petrarch's afterlife
- Part VI Conclusion
- Guide to further reading
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to…
9 - De vita solitaria and De otio religioso: the perspective of the guest
from Part III - Petrarch's works: Latin
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2015
- The Cambridge Companion to Petrarch
- The Cambridge Companion to Petrarch
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Book part
- Chronology
- Glossary
- Introduction
- Part I Lives of Petrarch
- Part II Petrarch's works: Italian
- Part III Petrarch's works: Latin
- 7 The Latin hexameter works: Epystole, Bucolicum carmen, Africa
- 8 The defense of poetry in the Secretum
- 9 De vita solitaria and De otio religioso: the perspective of the guest
- 10 Epistolary Petrarch
- Part IV Petrarch's interlocutors
- Part V Petrarch's afterlife
- Part VI Conclusion
- Guide to further reading
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to…
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- The Cambridge Companion to Petrarch , pp. 111 - 119Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015