TOPOI TROBADORICI NEI RERUM VULGARIUM FRAGMENTA

My research focuses on the relationship between Petrarch and the troubadours, with particular reference to conventional expressive elements, such as genres structures and topical images. My primary objective is to analyse which aspects of the courtly tradition Petrarch chose to gain in building his own lyric language, in order to prove how the poet was able to transform his sources according to a new, personal perspective. I also intend to highlight how Petrarch’s reuse of Provençal models was functional to his auto-legitimation within the vulgar literary tradition, from its origins to his most recent auctoritas, Dante. In conclusion, I propose to offer some concrete data and a functional hypothesis about which Occitan materials Petrarch may have read and in which context, as tools in his widening the knowledge of troubadours’ poetry.