The poetry of Petrarch / translated by David Young.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.

Contributor:

Young, David, 1936-

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Rime. Selections. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry, Medieval--History and criticism.

Poetry, Medieval.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

xxxv, 277 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.

Summary:

"Petrarch was born in Tuscany in the fourteenth century and grew up in the south of France. He lived his life in the service of the church, traveled widely, and was revered as the model man of letters of his time." "Petrarch's greatest gift to posterity was his Rime in vita e morta di Madonna Laura, the cycle of poems popularly known as his songbook. By turns full of wit, languor, and fawning, endlessly inventive, in tightly composed yet ornate forms they record their speaker's unrequited obsession with the woman named Laura. In the centuries after it was designed, the "Petrarchan sonnet," as it would be known, has inspired the greatest love poets of the English language - from the time of Spenser and Shakespeare to our own."--BOOK JACKET.

Contents:

Petrarch: An Introduction

The Canzoniere, 1-366.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780374529611

0374529612

OCLC:

60334129

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