Francesco Petrarca Books
The Canzoniere, or, Rerum vulgarium fragmenta
"Petrarch's personification of the hapless lover has become one of our major models. Indeed, in many of his poems of the pain and the bitter pleasure of love, we recognize a vivid and timely pictur...
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Petrarch's Guide to the Holy Land
By Francesco Petrarca, Theodore J. Cachey
"In the early spring of 1358 Francis Petrarch was invited by his friend Giovanni Mandelli, a leading military and political figure of Visconti Milan, to go on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Pleased...
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