%0 Journal Article %T Petrarch¡¯s Poetics: From the Abyss of Representation to Creative Imitation %A Luis Gonzalo Portugal %J Humanist Studies & the Digital Age %D 2011 %I University of Oregon Libraries %R 10.5399/uo/hsda.1.1.1246 %X This article examines concepts such as creative imitation and the impossibility of representation in order to suggest an ethic of reading in Petrarch¡¯s Canzoniere. Such ethics illuminate possible new relationships between Renaissance and Baroque %U http://journals.oregondigital.org/hsda/article/view/1246