In the wake of Francesco Petrarch‘s self-stylisation as a point of reference for the formation of literary, philosophical and philological groups, communities of intellectuals emerge, first in Italy, then throughout Europe, that refer to certain aspects of Petrarch‘s authorial figure and parts of his Italian and Latin oeuvre. Petrarch serves as a model for pre-modern literary, aesthetic, philosophical, philological, historical and artistic concepts and projects.

This workshop’s aim is to analyse the phenomenon of Petrarchism in a broad sense of a multi-faceted international, interlinguistic, intergeneric and, by including the question of Petrarchism in the visual arts, also intermedial dynamics, always under the specific aspect of the formation of temporary cultural communities.

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