Petrarchs Lyric Poems by Francesco Petrarch
Durlings edition of Petrarchs poems has become the standard. Readers have praised the translation of the authoritative text as graceful and accurate, conveying a real understanding of what this difficult poet is saying. The literalness of the prose translation makes this book especially useful to students who lack a full command of Italian.
The translations are extremely readable, and their juxtaposition to the original makes the work a valuable tool for the reader whose knowledge of Italian may be less than perfect-- Joseph A. Barber, MLN
Francesco Petrarca, or Petrarch until English speakers, was an Italian poet who grew up and lived in and around Avignon, France, from 1304 to 1374. On Good Friday in 1327, he claimed, he beheld for the first time a beautiful, God-fearing, and married woman named Laura in church. He completed his first collection of Italian lyric poems by the end of 1337, and was named poet laureate in Rome in 1341. Petrarch spent the next thirty years or more finishing his masterpiece, Canzoniere, Rime sparse, and Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, which chronicled the speaker's unrequited love for Laura both while she was alive and after she died of bubonic plague in 1348.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780674663480 |
| ISBN 10 | 0674663489 |
| Title | Petrarchs Lyric Poems |
| Author | Francesco Petrarch |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press |
| Year published | 1979-05-15 |
| Number of pages | 672 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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