Sonnets and Shorter Poems

In Petrarch's hands, lyric verse was transformed from an expression of courtly devotion into a way of conversing with one's own heart and mind. David Slavitt renders the sonnets in Il Canzoniere, along with the shorter madrigals and ballate, in a sparkling and engaging idiom and in rhythm and rhyme that do justice to Petrarch's achievement.

Author: Francesco Petrarch, David R. Slavitt
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 02/01/2012
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 8.37h x 5.82w x 1.18d
ISBN: 9780674062160