History, biography, praise and exemplum in Petrarch’s Rerum memorandarum libri
Abstract
The present paper intends to analyze Francesco Petrarch’s historical production, with a special focus on the Rerum memorandarum libri. One of the main aims of the research is to characterize the historical genre of the text, taking as model Valero Máximo’s Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri. It is possible to observe that Petrarch uses this genre with the final purpose of exposing an ideal of life between the otium and the negotium, as he makes in other texts. In addition, it can also be observed in this particular text that the medium ideal is manifested in the use of exemplum, but this ideal is limited by the heroic model of the biography. In this sense, this tension will be realised in the analysis of the way in which the author prasises the King Roberto de Anjou.
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