Canzoniere

ISBN-13: 9780140448160 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 208 str.

Francesco Petrarca

Opis

This is a translation of 60 poems from Petrarch's Canzoniere, readable as English verse but also faithful to Petrarchan technique and structure, with a mixture of full rhyme and half-rhymes. The selection includes poetry from the first and second parts of the Canzoniere (known as in vita and in mote) and includes samples of all the various forms - the dominant sonnnet and canzone, and also the sestina and the madrigal. as well as the love poetry.