Changes of Heart
Prue Shaw, 23 May 1985
Petrarch: Poet and Humanist
by Kenelm Foster.
Edinburgh, 214 pp., £9, July 1984,0 85224 485 1 Show More
by Kenelm Foster.
Edinburgh, 214 pp., £9, July 1984,
“... writing became a way of forging an identity, structuring a personality to bequeath to posterity. Kenelm Foster reacts to the unreliability of Petrarch’s testimony in exactly the opposite way. Painstakingly, warily, with the utmost caution, he tries to reconstruct the experience behind the words, to make sense of the inner world of the poet: a more ... ”