Diletta Bergamo

The project aims to investigate the humanistic and Renaissance reception of Petrarch’s De remediis utriusque fortune in Italy. It will carry out an inquiry into the ways in which the treatise was received and interpreted between the 15th and 16th centuries, as well as the cultural environments and media channels that favored its circulation and reading. The goal will be to provide a detailed overview of its manuscript and printed circulation, a study of the two vernacular translations that spread in Italy between the 15th and 16th centuries, and an assessment of the persistence in Renaissance literature of the ideological themes proposed in the treatise. The research will be based on the integration of multiple perspectives (the textual tradition, the history of the book and publishing, the study of cultural and political institutions, the linguistic and ideological development of the treatise) in order to explore to what extent Petrarch’s moral lesson fostered the development of cultural communities and influenced the formation of Italian humanistic and Renaissance thought.