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Modern Italy
Journal of Modern Italian Studies
RIVISTA DI STUDI ITALIANI
Anno XIV , n° 2, Dicembre 1996 ( Contributi ) pag. 1-19
PETRARCH: A RESTLESS HUMANIST'S DIALOGUE
WITH CHRISTIAN ANTIQUITY
BRENDA DEEN SCHILDGEN
University of California at Davis,
Davis, California
I may hear the world grow still and silent.
Petrarch, Secretum1

[...] nel laberinto intrai, né veggio ond'esca.
Petrarch, Rime sparse, 2112


Petrarch's metaphor for his poetic and spiritual journey as "un lungo error in cieco laberinto" (a long wandering in a blind labyrinth) (224.4) contrasts sharply with Dante's hierophantic vision of the angelic multitudes stretching into infinity. Dante's multitudes stay within a "cerchi sfavillaro" (fiery ring) (Canto XXVIII, 90), singing Hosanna to the "punto fisso" (fixed point) (Canto XXVIII, 95), their number "più che Ί doppiar de li scacchi s'inmilla" (more than the doubling of the chessboard) (Canto XXVIII, 93)3. Dante's deliberate journey leads him to experience the "still point" and the oxymoron of limitless boundary. [...]
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