Abstract:The reception of Petrarch's Rvf seems to have been very extensive even in the so-called "century without poetry" (Croce 209-238), above all in humanist Latin literature which wisely mixes the topoi of classical elegy with the ones of Romance poetry. The recent studies by Pantani, Landi and Tonelli have only opened the way towards a field which could be really interesting to explore. In particular, "Solo et pensoso" seems to have enjoyed a great fortune: even if it has not been translated by humanists (as on th… Show more
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