Petrarch in English

Petrarch in English
Author: Thomas Roche
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2005-12-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 014193672X

Franceso Petrarch (1304-1374), creator of the sonnet form, remained for more than three hundred years the most influential poet in Europe, his works more widely read than even those of Dante. This collection contains English language versions of his poems from across six centuries, in a wide variety of translations and reinterpretations. Spanning the Trionfi series and the Canzoniere - Petrarch's empassioned sonnet-sequence concerning his beloved Laura - it also includes great English poems influenced by Petrarch. From Chaucer's early adaptation of a Petrarchan sonnet in Troilus and Criseyde to the sixteenth century translations by the Earl of Surrey, Byron's mocking consideration of the Canzoniere in Don Juan and Ezra Pound's parody Silet, all provide a unique insight into the significance of the founder of the European lyric tradition.

Petrarch in English

Petrarch in English
Author: Francesco Petrarca
Publisher: ePenguin
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2005-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

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.

Petrarch in English

Petrarch in English
Author: Francesco Petrarca
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2005-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0140434488

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.

The Canzoniere

The Canzoniere
Author: Francesco Petrarca
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2000-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781899293124

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.

Petrarch's Lyric Poems

Petrarch's Lyric Poems
Author: Francesco Petrarca
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 682
Release: 1976
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780674663480

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 Poetry of Petrarch

The Poetry of Petrarch
Author: Petrarch
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2014-06-03
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1466872896

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.

The Essential Petrarch

The Essential Petrarch
Author: Petrarch
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2010-11-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1624661998

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

Petrarch

Petrarch
Author: Francesco Petrarca
Publisher: Poetica (Anvil Press)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780856464386

Daring interpretations of landmark works by the most important Italian early Renaissance poet, presented in a bilingual edition.

My Secret Book

My Secret Book
Author: Francesco Petrarca
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2016-06-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0674003462

Petrarch was the leading spirit in the Renaissance movement to revive literary Latin, the language of the Roman Empire, and Greco-Roman culture in general. My Secret Book reveals a remarkable self-awareness as he probes and evaluates the springs of his own morally dubious addictions to fame and love.