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Canzoniere
Wonderful collection, but I would still look to either the original Italian or bilingual collections of the complete work.One can get lost in the world Petrarch evokes as he pursues his poetic journey which also is a spiritual one as well. ... Read more

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Petrarch was an Italian scholar, poet, and early humanist, often popularly called the "father of humanism". Based on his work, and to a lesser extent that of Dante and Boccaccio, Pietro Bembo in the 16th century created the model for modern Italian later endorsed by the Accademia della Crusca. Petrarch is credited for perfecting the sonnet, making it one of the most popular art forms to date. The sight of a woman called Laura in the church of Sainte-Claire d'Avignon awoke in him a lasting passion, celebrated in the Rime sparse ("Scattered rhymes"). This collection of 366 poems was later renamed Il Canzoniere ("Song Book"). This book contains his two most popular collections, Il Canzoniere and the Triumphs. ... Read more

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The Renaissance movement known as humanism eventually spread from Italy through all of Western Europe, transforming early modern culture in ways that are still being felt and debated.Central to these debates—and to this book—is the question of whether (and how) the humanist movement contributed to the secularization of western cultural traditions at the end of the Middle Ages.A preeminent scholar of Italian humanism, Riccardo Fubini approaches this question in a new way—by redefining the problem of secularization more carefully to show how humanists can at once be secularizers and also religious thinkers.The result is a provocative vision of the humanist movement. Humanism and Secularization offers a nuanced account of humanists contesting medieval ideas about authority not in order to reject Christianity or even orthodoxy, but to claim for themselves the right to define what it meant to be a Christian.Fubini analyzes key texts by major humanists--such as Petrarch, Poggio, and Valla—from the first century of the movement.As he subtly works out these authors’ views on religion and the church from both biographical and textual information, Fubini reveals in detail the new historical consciousness that animated the humanists in their reading of classical and patristic texts.His book as a whole shows convincingly just how radical the humanism of the first half of the fifteenth century was and how sharply it challenged well entrenched ideas and institutions.Appearing here in English for the first time, his work provides a model set of readings of humanist texts and a critical perspective on Italian humanism that will alter and enrich discussion and understanding of the nature of the humanist movement throughout the English-speaking world. ... Read more

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Kennedy chronicles the process of Petrarch's canonization from the interpretive commentaries found in rare fifteenth- and sixteenth-century editions of Rime sparse through the imitative poetry of early modern writers in Italy, France, and England.The commentaries--each employing a different Petrarch to promote a different ideological paradigm--take a wide range of approaches to important contemporaneous issues relating to politics, class, religion, love, and gender relationships. ... Read more

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Petrarch is an ideal subject for biography, and he has found the perfect biographer in Morris Bishop, whose scholarship is both authoritative and unobtrusive, and whose urbane prose sparkles with color and wit. Yet this is more than a biography, for Petrarch's story is told against the background of a pageant of daily life in the later Middle Ages -- sometimes brilliant, sometimes squalid, sometimes merely human.

Many selections from Petrarch's poems and prose writings, in Mr. Bishop's deft translation, depict Petrarch's many-sided character in his own words, while twelve drawings by Alison Mason Kingsbury provide a rich embellishment for this entertaining book.

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Petrarch's Sonnets
This book, Petrarch's Songbook, is a bilingual edition of the songs and sonnets, originally titled Canzoniere, of Francesco Petrarch - a 14th-century Italian.It consists of 365 poems, mainly"Petrarchan" or Italian sonnets.In this edition, the originalItalian poems appear side-by-side with an excellent verse translation byJames Wyatt Cook.This is one of my favorite translations of the poems;Mark Musa's is more prosaic, Morris Bishop's is good, but hard to find.

If you want to find out what an obsessive love is truly like - here'sthe place to go.Petrarch fell in love with Laura on April 6, 1327 andobsesses about her for about fifty years.She was a married woman, livingin the Avignon of the Popes.Her death, of the plague on April 6 (note thecoincidence), 1348 did not end the fountain of poetry; Petrarch continuedwith the poems after her death.

This songbook is the source of the famedPetrarchan conceit, the farfetched comparison - for instance, that thebeloved's eyes are like suns, dispensing warmth upon the lover (or coldwhen she is chilly).Later, the Elizabethan poets imitated these conceits. Even Shakespeare has a go at satirizing them.

Enjoy this fabulouspoetry.

Petrarch's Sonnets
This book, Petrarch's Songbook, is a bilingual edition of the songs and sonnets, originally titled Canzoniere, of Francesco Petrarch - a 14th-century Italian.It consists of 365 poems, mainly"Petrarchan" or Italian sonnets.In this edition, the originalItalian poems appear side-by-side with an excellent verse translation byJames Wyatt Cook.This is one of my favorite translations of the poems;Mark Musa's is more prosaic, Morris Bishop's is good, but hard to find.

If you want to find out what an obsessive love is truly like - here'sthe place to go.Petrarch fell in love with Laura on April 6, 1327 andobsesses about her for about fifty years.She was a married woman, livingin the Avignon of the Popes.Her death, of the plague on April 6 (note thecoincidence), 1348 did not end the fountain of poetry; Petrarch continuedwith the poems after her death.

This songbook is the source of the famedPetrarchan conceit, the farfetched comparison - for instance, that thebeloved's eyes are like suns, dispensing warmth upon the lover (or coldwhen she is chilly).Later, the Elizabethan poets imitated these conceits. Even Shakespeare has a go at satirizing them.

Enjoy this fabulouspoetry. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Contents:Introduction The Man of Letters The "Epistle to Posterity" Early Life Petrarch and Laura Petrarch at Vaucluse Petrarch on His Travels The Form of "Africa" and Later Prose Works Ascent of Mount Ventoux The Laurel Crown The Anarchy of Italy The Rienzi Revolution The Death of Laura The Emperor and The Viscontis The Papal Power Petrarch at Venice and Arqua ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Marjorie Boyle is the first theologian to write about Petrarch the poet as theologian. With her extraordinarily broad and deep knowledge of the theological, historical, and literary contexts of her subject, she presents an entirely original and revisionary account of Petrarch's literary career.Petrarch, she argues, has been misunderstood by the division of his literary enterprise into two sidesPetrarch the poet, Petrarch the humanist reformerstudied by literary critics and historians respectively. Boyle demonstrates that the division is artificial, that the two sides are part of the same prophetic mission. Petrarch's Genius is an important book that deserves to be read by all Petrarch scholarstheologians as well as literary critics and historians. ... Read more