{"product_id":"sonnets-and-shorter-poems-hardcover","title":"Sonnets and Shorter Poems - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFrancesco Petrarch\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDavid R. Slavitt\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this volume, David R. Slavitt, the distinguished translator and author of more than one hundred works of fiction, poetry, and drama, turns his skills to \u003ci\u003eIl Canzoniere\u003c\/i\u003e (Songbook) by Petrarch, the most influential poet in the history of the sonnet. In Petrarch's hands, lyric verse was transformed from an expression of courtly devotion into a way of conversing with one's own heart and mind. Slavitt renders the sonnets in \u003ci\u003eIl Canzoniere\u003c\/i\u003e, along with the shorter madrigals and ballate, in a sparkling and engaging idiom and in rhythm and rhyme that do justice to Petrarch's achievement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the center of \u003ci\u003eIl Canzoniere \u003c\/i\u003e(also known as \u003ci\u003eRime Sparse, \u003c\/i\u003eor Scattered Rhymes) is Petrarch's obsessive love for Laura, a woman Petrarch asserts he first saw at Easter Mass on April 6, 1327, in the church of Sainte-Claire d'Avignon when he was twenty-two. Though Laura was already married, the sight of her woke in the poet a passion that would last beyond her premature death on April 6, 1348, exactly twenty-one years after he first encountered her. Unlike Dante's Beatrice--a savior leading the poet by the hand toward divine love--Petrarch's Laura elicits more earthbound and erotic feelings. David Slavitt's deft new translation captures the nuanced tone of Petrarch's poems--their joy and despair, and eventually their grief over Laura's death. Readers of poetry and especially those with an interest in the sonnet and its history will welcome this volume.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.18 x 8.37 x 5.82 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 01, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51756881576224,"sku":"9780674062160","price":75.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/713069d5a65c693933607c829e2ee323.webp?v=1780088406","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/sonnets-and-shorter-poems-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}