{"product_id":"the-poetry-of-petrarch-paperback","title":"The Poetry of Petrarch - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePetrarch\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDavid Young\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Young's version of Petrarch will refresh our images of the West's crucial lyric poet. We are given a Petrarch in our own vernacular, with echoes of Wyatt, Shakespeare, and many who come after. --Harold Bloom\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eIneffable sweetness, bold, uncanny sweetness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ethat came to my eyes from her lovely face; \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003efrom that day on I'd willingly have closed them, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003enever to gaze again at lesser beauties.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--from Sonnet 116 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePetrarch was born in Tuscany and grew up in the south of France. He lived his life in the service of the church, traveled widely, and during his lifetime was a revered, model man of letters. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePetrarch's greatest gift to posterity was his Rime in vita e morta di Madonna Laura, the cycle of poems popularly known as his songbook. By turns full of wit, languor, and fawning, endlessly inventive, in a tightly composed yet ornate form they record their speaker's unrequited obsession with the woman named Laura. In the centuries after it was designed, the Petrarchan sonnet, as it would be known, inspired the greatest love poets of the English language-from the times of Spenser and Shakespeare to our own. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDavid Young's fresh, idiomatic version of Petrarch's poetry is the most readable and approachable that we have. In his skillful hands, Petrarch almost sounds like a poet out of our own tradition bringing the wheel of influence full circle.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sonnets of \u003cb\u003ePetrarch\u003c\/b\u003e (Francesco Petrarca, 1304-74) helped to establish Italian as a literary language. \u003cb\u003eDavid Young\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of nine volumes of poetry, most recently of \u003ci\u003eAt the White Window.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.2 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51762303009056,"sku":"9780374529611","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/f43b50abff5c5e5ab00812925b889eae.webp?v=1780219083","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-poetry-of-petrarch-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}