The Essential Petrarch

Petrarch, Peter Hainsworth

• Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
• Year: 2010
• eBook ISBN: 9781624661990
• Edition: 0
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: European Renaissance History
• Index: History

Petrarch fashioned so many different versions of himself for posterity that it is an exacting task to establish where one might start to explore.... Hainsworth's study meets this problem through examples of what Petrarch wrote, and does so decisively and succinctly.... [A] careful and unpretentious book, penetrating in its organization and treatment of its subject, gentle in its guidance of the reader, nimble and dexterous in its scholarly infrastructure—and no less profound for those qualities of lightness. The translations themselves are a delight, and are clearly the result of profound meditation and extensive experiment.... The Introduction and the notes to each work form a clear plexus of support for the reader, with a host of deft cross-references. --Richard Mackenny, Binghamton University, State University of New York

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• Editions Used and Further Reading
• Poems from the Canzoniere
• The Triumph of Eternity
• Secretum, Book 3
• Letters
• Index of Italian First Lines of Poems from the Canzoniere
• Index of English First Lines of Poemsfrom the Canzoniere
• Back Cover