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Petrarch
Language: en
Pages: 264
Authors: Christopher S. Celenza
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-08-22 - Publisher: Reaktion Books

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An enlightening study of the contradictory character of this canonical fourteenth-century Italian poet. Born in Tuscany in 1304, Italian poet Francesco Petrarca
Petrarch in English
Language: en
Pages: 377
Authors: Thomas Roche
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-12-01 - Publisher: Penguin UK

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Franceso Petrarch (1304-1374), creator of the sonnet form, remained for more than three hundred years the most influential poet in Europe, his works more widely
The Essential Petrarch
Language: en
Pages: 288
Authors: Petrarch
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-11-15 - Publisher: Hackett Publishing

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Petrarch fashioned so many different versions of himself for posterity that it is an exacting task to establish where one might start to explore. . . . Hainswor
The Poetry of Petrarch
Language: en
Pages: 324
Authors: Petrarch
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-06-03 - Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Ineffable sweetness, bold, uncanny sweetness that came to my eyes from her lovely face; from that day on I'd willingly have closed them, never to gaze again at
Petrarch
Language: en
Pages: 568
Authors: Victoria Kirkham
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-06-10 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Although Francesco Petrarca (1304–74) is best known today for cementing the sonnet’s place in literary history, he was also a philosopher, historian, orator