Petrarch's Lyric Poems: The Rime Sparse and Other Lyrics - Softcover

Petrarch, Francesco

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0674663489 ISBN 13: 9780674663480

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1979

Synopsis

For teachers and students of Petrarch, Durling's edition of the poems has become the standard one. Readers have praised the translation as both graceful and accurate, conveying a real understanding of what this difficult poet is saying. The literalness of the prose translation makes this beautiful book especially useful to students who lack a full command of Italian. And students reading the verse in the original will find here an authoritative text.

About this title

About the Author:

Robert M. Durling is Professor of Italian and English Literature at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He is the author of "The Figure of the Poet in Renaissance Epic" and translator of "Petrarch's Lyric Poems". Ronald L. Martinez is Associate Professor of Italian at the University of Minnesota and the author of numerous articles on Dante, Boccaccio, and Machiavelli.

Language Notes:

Text: English, Italian (translation)

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0674663489
• ISBN 13: 9780674663480
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 672