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Petrarch's influence on the iconography of the Carrara Palace in Padua: the conflict between ancestral and antique themes in the fourteenth century

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"This book examines Petrarch's relationship with Francesco il Vecchio d Carrara, lord of Padua, who was the poet's host during his final years (1367-74), and for whom he started to rewrite his great work of Roman history, the De Viris Illustribus. The exemplary prupose of this text was extended in the form of a major fresco cycle in the Sala Virorum Illustrium of the Carrara palace in Padua, the Reggia."--Publisher's description.

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    1300-1399

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    • 0773452362
    • 9780773452367

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