Selections from the "Canzoniere" and Other Works
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Selections from the "Canzoniere" and Other Works by Francesco Petrarca
This entirely new translation includes Petrarch's short autobiographical prose works, The Letter to Posterity and The Ascent of Mount Ventoux, and a selection of twenty-seven poems from the Canzoniere, Petrarch's best-known work in Italian.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 | 9780192817075 |
| ISBN 10 | 0192817078 |
| Title | Selections from the "Canzoniere" and Other Works |
| Author | Francesco Petrarca |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 1985-11-01 |
| Number of pages | 112 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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