There is a thin, red decorative border around all of the pages. The pastedowns and free endpapers are deep mauve. The book features dozens of a chronological history of Petrarch’s life, a biography of ...

All 366 of the Canzoniere are available in The Poetry of Petrarch, an English-only edition by poet and translator David Young (At the White Window), who also introduces the book.

who tortured me for many years before, my freedom’s bittersweet, I realize, and to the Lord I thank and I adore, whose eyes sustain and oversee the skies, I turn—world-weary, not desiring more. This ...

Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme, Vol. 45, No. 1 (2022 WINTER / HIVER), pp. 7-32 (26 pages) This article posits that in the texts (both epistolary and otherwise) associated ...

The poet’s reminiscences break off at this point, when he had reached his fortysixth year, and had still a quarter of a century to live.

Indeed, much that our authors represent as illustrations to Petrarch is attached to his poem only remotely. There was an independent pictorial tradition more influential over artists than were the ...

From a recital at the 2006 Aspen Music Festival, Lang Lang performs a solo piano version of a poem about the agony of being in love -- Petrarch Sonnet No. 104.