Petrarkův spis De remediis a jeho česká recepce

• Authors: Pelan Jiri

Title variants

EN

PETRARCH'S 'DE REMEDIIS' AND ITS RECEPTION IN BOHEMIA

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

In the first part of the article, the author discusses the didactic work 'De remediis utriusque fortune', in which Petrach's Augustine-inspired pessimism finds its extreme expression. In the second part, the article points out that in Bohemia the reception of Petrarch as a moralist was fundamentally different from the usual image of him as a humanist. It discusses the appeal that Petrarch's moral philosophy had for reform-minded figures like Rehor Hruby z Jeleni (c.1460-1514) and Mikulas Konac z Hodiskova (c. 1480-1546), and analyzes Jan Ceska's 'Reci a nauceni hlubokych mudrcu' (Words and teachings of the great sages c.1500), a florilegium based for the most part on De remediis. On the basis of a comparison of Ceska's translations and paraphrases of De remediis, the author concludes (in opposition to Josef Macek) that in Ceska's work Petrarch's rigorous, inwardly oriented Augustinian concept of Virtue is superseded by the essentially more open, concept of Reason oriented to this world, and that Petrarch's pessimism is thus reinterpreted in the spirit of positive, confident proto-Reformation thinking.

Keywords

EN

CESKA JAN; PETRARCH; SONETS

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Česká literatura (Czech Literature)
• Year: 2006
• Volume: 54
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 1-19
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Pelan Jiri

• Jiri Pelan, Ceska literatura, redakce, Ustav pro ceskou literaturu AV CR, v.v.i., Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic; http://dlib.lib.cas.cz/5810

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CEJSH db identifier

10CZAAAA086511