Summary
This book presents English renderings of Petrarch’s sonnets, with attention to the Tuscan language that made his work central to Italian literary history. It reflects on the difficulty of translating his compact verse into English and on the poet’s sincerity of feeling. The poems are also discussed through the figure of Laura, whose beauty, silence, death, and the dream-like conventions of the love sequence shape Petrarch’s long devotion.
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