Fifteen Sonnets of Petrarch (European Writers) - Softcover

Petrarch, Francesco

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1861715986 ISBN 13: 9781861715982

Publisher: Crescent Moon Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

FRANCESCO PETRARCH: FIFTEEN SONNETS FORM PETRARCH Selected by Thomas Wentworth Higginson Edited by Cassidy Hughes Francesco Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca, 1304-1374) is the supreme poet of love in the Western tradition, alongside poets such as Sappho and William Shakespeare. Francesco Petrarch is also the Renaissance artist and humanist par excellence. Petrarchism is termed the longest poetic tradition in the Occident, and Petrarch has influenced poets such as Maurice Scève, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Torquato Tasso, Edmund Spenser, Michael Drayton, Joachim Du Bellay, Pierre de Ronsard, Rainer Maria Rilke and Robert Graves, among hundreds of others. Petrarch’s Canzoniere, often also known as the Rime Sparse, lies at the heart of his achievement: it comprises 366 poems about love, written in Italian and worked on right up until Petrarch’s death in 1374. In the Canzoniere, there are hundreds of sonnets, 29 canzoni, 7 ballate, 9 sestine and 4 madrigali. Petrarch’s other major works included Secretum, Triumphs, Africa, De Vita Solitaria, verse epistles, biographies, allegorical ecologues and hundreds of letters. Includes a note on Francesco Petrarch, a bibliography, a timeline, and a gallery of pictures. 92 pages. www.crmoon.com

About this title

About the Author:

Bruce Rogers taught ESL and test preparation courses at the Economics Institute at the University of Colorado, USA, since 1979. He has also taught in special programs in Indonesia, Vietnam, Korea, the Czech Republic, and Egypt. In addition to this series, he is the author of Introductory Guide to the TOEIC Test and The Complete Guide to TOEIC Test, both with National Geographic Learning.

About this edition

• Publisher: Crescent Moon Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1861715986
• ISBN 13: 9781861715982
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 92
• Editor: Hughes Cassidy