Римское прошлое как составная часть «идеи нации» у ренессансных интеллектуалов XIV века (Петрарка)
The Roman past as a component of «the idea of the nation» at the Renaissance intellectuals of the XIV century (Petrarch)

Summary/Abstract: The article analyzes the Latin treatise by Petrarch “De remediis utriusque fortunae” (1354—1366) in which the Roman past and its representatives are designated as “ours” / “yours”, national and cultural meanings of these concepts are understood. The definition of “ours” — “yours” as “Romans” for modern to Petrarch readers obviously moved apart “chronotope” of the treatise if to understand it as the interrelation of historical “parameters” based on unity. The appeal to Cicero played special role in updating the Roman past. The past comes back to collective memory as not lost communications with the present. Petrarch, the outstanding intellectual of the time, did not just stay ahead of the century in search of the idea of the nation, but also set the directions of its search.

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