Roberto Antonelli

Daniele Ponchiroli

Gianfranco Contini

Francesco Petrarca

Canzoniere

Durling's edition of Petrarch's 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 Rime Sparse and Other Lyrics

Petrarch's Lyric Poems

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.

Selections from the Canzoniere and Other Works

Il Canzoniere

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The Triumphs Of Petrarch

Conrad Henry RAWSKI

Four dialogues for scholars. I. On the abundance of books. II. On the fame of writers. III. On the Master's degree. IV. On various academic titles. From De remediis utriusque fortune. Edited and newly translated into English by Conrad H. Rawski

Letters on Familiar Matters

Sonety pre Lauru

Soneti i kancone

Professor of Politics David Marsh

Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374), one of the greatest Italian poets, was also a leader in the Renaissance movement to revive ancient Roman language and literature. This new critical edition of the Invectives, intended to revive the eloquence of Cicero, are directed against scholastic philosophy and medicine and the dominance of French culture.

Invectives

Ike Cialona

Keuze uit het werk van de Italiaanse dichter (1304-1374) met vertaling.

de mooiste liefdesgedichten

Sonnetten voor Laura

THIS TRANSLATION makes available for the first time to English-speaking readers Petrarch's earliest and perhaps most important collection of prose letters. They were written for the most part between 1325 and 1366, and were organized into the present collection of twenty-four books between 1345 and 1366. THE COLLECTION represents a portrait of the artist as a young man seen through the eyes of the mature artist. Whether in the writing of poetry, or being crowned poet laureate, or in confessing his faults, describing the dissolution of the kingdom of Naples, summoning up the grandeur of ancient Rome, or in writing to pope or emperor, Petrarch was always the consummate artist, deeply concerned with creating a desired effect by means of a dignified gracefulness, and always conscious that his private life and thoughts could be the object of high art and public interest. AS EARLY AS 1436 Leonardo Bruni wrote in his Life of Petrarch: "Petrarch was the first man to have had a sufficiently fine mind to recognize the gracefulness of the lost ancient style and to bring it back to life." It was indeed the very style or manner in which Petrarch consciously sought to create the impression of continuity with the past that was responsible for the enormous impact he made on subsequent generations. THIS COMPLETE TRANSLATION by Aldo S. Bernardo has long been out of print and is reproduced here in its entirety in three volumes. Vol. 1, Books I-VIII. 472 pp. Introduction, notes, bibliography.

Letters on Familiar Matters: I-VIII

Sin duda, una de las obras que más influjo han ejercido en la literatura europea es la de FRANCESCO PETRARCA (1304-1374), destacado representante de la corriente renovadora del saber que se halla en el origen del Renacimiento. Filólogo iniciador de la historia de las letras y de la ciencia de la historia, filósofo y latinista, Petrarca –posterior en sólo una generación al autor de la «Divina Comedia» (L 5569) y contemporáneo de Boccaccio, cuya amistad cultivó– es más conocido en la actualidad por la recopilación de sus composiciones en lengua vulgar, conocida generalmente con el nombre de CANCIONERO, en las cuales volcó la expresión de un amor ya de nuevo signo, puramente humano. Reflejo de la experiencia de toda una vida –no cesó de reordenar y corregir sus poemas a lo largo de su existencia–, biografía espiritual, más que sentimental, los 317 sonetos, 29 canciones, 9 sextinas, 7 baladas y 4 madrigales que lo componen son, como apunta en su iluminadora introducción Ángel Crespo –autor también de la traducción–, el «producto orgánico de una experiencia largamente meditada», pero asimismo, en no menor medida, hijos legítimos «no sólo de su amor por Laura, sino también de su sabiduría y erudición».

Cancionero / Song Book

Francesco Petrarca (1304-74) has been described as the 'first modern man of letters' and his influence on the European lyric tradition has been widespread. The poems of his Canzoniere, closely associated as they are with the enigmatic figure of Laura, were soon to become the models for love-poetry in nearly all major European literatures in the Renaissance. The new translations here use the same rhyme schemes and broadly the same metres as those used by Petrarch himself. The facing English texts are thus not intended to be absolutely literal, but to reflect the inner meanings and moods of the originals, with some further literal translations of difficult passages added in the notes. The notes to the poems also cover their likely dates, mythological allusions, certain background settings, and a number of other calendrical and structural features which appear to emerge from the actual sequencing of the collection itself. There is also a section on old Italian syntax. and other linguistic aids. The new translation of Petrarch's Rerum Vulgarian Fragmenta is in two separate volumes.

(rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta)

The Canzoniere

La religione, la patria, il dovere morale e soprattutto il sublime sentimento per la donna amata in 366 componimenti poetici. La gioia e il dolore, il piacere e il pentimento trattati con toni armoniosi e sinceri dal Petrarca (1304-74). Una delle massime opere della letteratura italiana, fondamentale per lo sviluppo della nostra lingua.

English translation of the stoical dialogue De Remediis Utriusque Fortunae, known to nearly all the great writers of the Renaissance. Contains chapters on dancing, ball games, gambling, wrestling, hunting & hawking, libraries, "elephantes & cammelles," schoolmasters, spectacles & shows, pictures, alchemy, toothache, gout, blindness, deafness, & lechery.

Phisicke Against Fortune

Containing English language versions of Franceso Petrarch's poems from across six centuries, this book includes English poems influenced by Petrarch. It features Chaucer's early adaptation of a Petrarchan sonnet in Troilus and Criseyde to the sixteenth century translations by the Earl of Surrey.

Francesco Petrarca

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