PART ONE: MATERIALS Editions and Translations Required and Recommended Readings for Undergraduates The Instructor's Library Reference Works Biographies and Background Works Works on the Development of the Canzoniere Collections of Essays Essays Petrarchism Electronic and Audiovisual Resources Texts and Studies Audio Resources Iconography PART TWO: APPROACHES Introduction: The Canzoniere and the Petrarchan Tradition in the Classroom The Canzoniere's Form: Design, Themes, Style
Approaches to the Design of Petrarch's Canzoniere / Germaine Warkentin
Petrarch, Laura, and the Canzoniere / Aldo S. Bernardo
Petrarch's Lyric Poetry: Prosody, Rhymes, Forms / Christopher Kleinhenz
Using a Concordance to Teach Petrarch's Canzoniere / Madison U. Sowell
Parole Estreme: Canzoniere 126 / Christopher Martin The Canzoniere and the Life
The Life and Works as Journey / Theodore J. Cachey, Jr.
Love and Misogamy in the Age of Dante and Petrarch / Fabian Alfie
Solitude and Inwardness: Approaching the Canzoniere through De vita solitaria and the Secretum / Jobst Welge
Petrarch and the Ethics of Writing and Reading / Massimo Lollini Teaching Petrarch's Literary Influences
Petrarch's Vernacular Poetry and the Latin Poetic Canon: The Poetics of Classical Philology / Ilaria Marchesi and Simone Marchesi
Echoes and Mirrors: Dante's Shadow in Petrarch's Canzoniere / Simone Marchesi
Boccaccio and Petrarch / Laurie Shepard Teaching Petrarch through Music
Another Petrarch: Teaching Petrarch through Music / Marc Vanscheeuwijck
Promoting Student Understanding of Petrarch's Canzoniere through Popular Music / Silvia Ross Petrarch and the Italian Tradition
Petrarch's Lyric Progeny / Michael Sherberg
Petrarch's Women / Fiora A. Bassanese
Tradition and Imitation in Petrarchan Poetics: The Song of the Nightingale / Elisabetta Properzi Nelson
Petrarch and the Search for Antica Virtu / Elizabeth H. D. Mazzocco
Teaching Petrarchism in the Context of Post-Risorgimento Poetry / Andrea Dini Petrarch in a Comparative Context
On Teaching the Canzoniere to Students of Spanish / Leah Middlebrook
Exploring Petrarchan Subjectivity in the Early Modern French Lyric / Deborah Lesko Baker
English Petrarchism / William J. Kennedy
Teaching Petrarch and Shakespeare / Tanya Pollard
Petrarch in English after 1750 / Edoardo Zuccato
Russian Petrarchism / Tom Dolack
The Canzoniere in a Comparative Literature Curriculum / Christopher Livanos Notes on Contributors Survey Respondents Works Cited Index