Description: Explores the nature and significance of Petrarch's indebtedness to Dante in the Rime sparse.
Brief description: Sara Sturm-Maddox received her PhD in Romance Philology and Medieval Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has received many awards and honors including an NEH Fellowship. She is the author of four books including Petrarch's Morals and Petrarch's Metamorphoses. In addition, she has written and edited a broad range of works on European Medieval Literature.