The Poetry of Petrarch

Ineffable sweetness, bold, uncanny sweetness that came to my eyes from her lovely face; from that day on I'd willingly have closed them, never to gaze again at lesser beauties. --from Sonnet 116 Petrarch was born in Tuscany and grew up in the south of France. He lived his life in the service of the church, traveled widely, and during his lifetime was a revered, model man of letters. 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 a tightly composed yet ornate form 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, inspired the greatest love poets of the English language--from the times of Spenser and Shakespeare to our own. David Young's fresh, idiomatic version of Petrarch's poetry is the most readable and approachable that we have. In his skillful hands, Petrarch almost sounds like a poet out of our own tradition bringing the wheel of influence full circle.

Literature & Fiction

Petrarch

Poetry

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

"David Young's version of Petrarch will refresh our images of the West's crucial lyric poet. We are given a Petrarch in our own vernacular, with echoes of Wyatt, Shakespeare, and many who come after." --Harold Bloom
Ineffable sweetness, bold, uncanny sweetness that came to my eyes from her lovely face; from that day on I'd willingly have closed them, never to gaze again at lesser beauties. --from Sonnet 116
Petrarch was born in Tuscany and grew up in the south of France. He lived his life in the service of the church, traveled widely, and during his lifetime was a revered, model man of letters. 
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 a tightly composed yet ornate form 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, inspired the greatest love poets of the English language-from the times of Spenser and Shakespeare to our own.
David Young's fresh, idiomatic version of Petrarch's poetry is the most readable and approachable that we have. In his skillful hands, Petrarch almost sounds like a poet out of our own tradition bringing the wheel of influence full circle.

History & Criticism

First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Canzoniere (Fyfield Books)

Dramas & Plays

Routledge

Acknowledgment 
Introduction 
On the abundance of books 
On the fame of writers 
On the master's degree 
On various academic titles 
Appendix 
Notes 
Index of Works by Petrarch

Four Dialogues for Scholars

The Press of Western Reserve University

Included in this highly useful volume are "Letter to Posterity"; 139 sonnets; odes 5, 6, 14, 16, 17, 21, and 29; the Metrical Letters "To Giacomo Colonna," and "To Italy"; and a complete list of sources. While most translations of Petrarch's work are by twentieth-century scholars in modern idiom, this insightful selection also presents classic translations by Chaucer, Wyatt, and Surrey. Edited by Thomas G. Bergin, this edition also contains a fine introduction, a list of principal dates in the life of Petrarch, as well as a bibliography

Selected Sonnets, Odes, and Letters (Crofts Classics)

Wiley/Blackwell

Petrarch's Book Without a Name

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies

The Sonnets of Petrarch in the Original Italian, Together with English Translations

The Herritage Press

The full compendium of Francesco Petrarch's poetic verses, rendered in English in this high quality edition, which also includes a biography of the great poet by Thomas Campbell.Notable for being the pivotal figure whose work commenced the Italian Renaissance, Francesco Petrarca's significance is gargantuan. His personal rediscovery of authentic correspondences written by the Roman statesman and legal scholar Cicero was the spark that set the enthusiasm for the arts and sciences alight throughout Italy and later much of Europe in a trend which would span centuries.Petrarch's personal creative proclivities were for poetry, a form in which he innovated and excelled. Serving as a model for later Italian poets such as Dante and Giovanni Boccaccio, Petrarch's poems are the vivid forebear of the wellspring of lyrical creativity which underpinned the Renaissance era. For Petrarch, his life's love and foremost poetic subject was Laura de Noves, a woman who for decades he considered a purely platonic muse.

The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch: The Canzonieres, Ballatas, Madrigales and Sestinas – Complete with Biography and Excerpts of Letters

Campbell, Thomas

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The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch

With an introductory life of Petrach by Thomas Campbell

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The Poetry of Petrarch

The Poetry of Petrarch

Canzoniere (Fyfield Books)

Canzoniere (Fyfield Books)

Four Dialogues for Scholars

Selected Sonnets, Odes, and Letters (Crofts Classics)

Petrarch's Book Without a Name

The Sonnets of Petrarch in the Original Italian, Together with English Translations

The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch: The Canzonieres, Ballatas, Madrigales and Sestinas – Complete with Biography and Excerpts of Letters

The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch