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Dall'eternita di dante all'impermanenza di petrarca.

From: Fu Jen Studies: literature & linguistics  |  Date: 1/1/2005  |  Author: Tulli, Antonella

ENGLISH ABSTRACT

This article traces the evolution of the perception of time from the Middle Ages through the Renaissance, before moving to a brief analysis of the literary works of Petrarch in comparison to Dante, with regard to their concepts of time and approaches to the idea of eternity. Building on my reflections in "Il concetto del tempo nella Divina Commedia" (Fu Jen Studies 35), it emphasizes the different sensibility with which Petrarch perceives the flow of time in an ...

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