The Petrarch Page

Petrarch Portrait

( 1304-1374 )

Works
Triumphs (1351-1374).
On the Solitary Life (1346-)
Rime (1374). Predominately sonnets, love lyrics.
Petrarch's Lyric Poems.Translated and edited by Robert M. Durling. Harvard, 1976. Literal prose translations. Bilingual edition.
Canzoniere. Translated into verse with notes and commentary by Mark Musa. Indiana, 1996.

About Petrarch
Morris Bishop, Petrarch and His World. Indiana, 1963.
James Harvey Robinson, Francesco Petrarca: The First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters. Putnam, 1898.
Francis Petrarch: Selections from his Correspondences. From Robinson's Petrarch ( See above ).

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