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Canzoniere
Contributor(s): Petrarch, Francesco (Author), Campbell, Thomas (Translator), Hughes, Cassidy (Editor)
ISBN: 1861715994     ISBN-13: 9781861715999
Publisher: Crescent Moon Publishing
OUR PRICE:   $23.74  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: October 2017
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | European - Italian
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Love & Erotica
Series: European Writers
Physical Information: 1.33" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (2.01 lbs) 660 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Italy
- Holiday - Valentine's Day
 
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FRANCESCO PETRARCH: CANZONIERE

Edited by Thomas Campbell and Cassidy Hughes

Francesco Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca, 1304-1374) is the supreme poet of love in the Western tradition, alongside poets such as Sappho and William Shakespeare. Francesco Petrarch is also the Renaissance artist and humanist par excellence. Petrarchism is termed the longest poetic tradition in the Occident, and Petrarch has influenced poets such as Maurice Sc ve, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Torquato Tasso, Edmund Spenser, Michael Drayton, Joachim Du Bellay, Pierre de Ronsard, Rainer Maria Rilke and Robert Graves, among hundreds of others.

Petrarch's Canzoniere, often also known as the Rime Sparse, lies at the heart of his achievement: it comprises 366 poems about love, written in Italian and worked on right up until Petrarch's death in 1374. In the Canzoniere, there are hundreds of sonnets, 29 canzoni, 7 ballate, 9 sestine and 4 madrigali. Petrarch's other major works included Secretum, Triumphs, Africa, De Vita Solitaria, verse epistles, biographies, allegorical ecologues and hundreds of letters.

The translations into English in this book are from a variety of authors, including George MacDonald.

Includes a note on Francesco Petrarch, a bibliography, and a gallery of pictures.

660 pages. www.crmoon.com