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Selections from the Canzoniere and Other Works by Francesco Petrarca, Mark Musa

krish_'s review against another edition

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4.0

319.

lauravolsic's review

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3.0

cetla jsem sonety laure, ale knizka nemela isbn, takze šŸ¤·šŸ»ā€ā™€ļø 
prumer, bylo to fajn

noahhhh's review

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emotional reflective sad fast-paced

3.75

pinoncoffee's review

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5.0

The author Petrarch, Italy in the 1300s, is where we get all those love poem tropes! He was influential, Iā€™m pretty sure, because heā€™s the kind of author who inspires readers to go away and write some of that too, and therefore we got generations of poems to perfectly noble and beautiful ladies.

Itā€™s actually a little brain-bending. Heā€™s outspokenly Christian and also had a years-long unrequited passion for Laura. This caused a certain amount of inner conflict.

His writings are all short and to the point, and tend to be organized around a bright central image, so a decent amount of the poem-ness carries through in translation. And, as mentioned above, you may go away oozing poetry of your own.

Besides love poems, we also have here a handful of (then) current event poems and a literal mountaintop spiritual experience, heavily inspired by Augustineā€™s Confessions. WHO KNEW.
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