The Poetry of Petrarch.(Book Review)

From: Harvard Review | Date: June 1, 2005| Author: Doreski, William | Copyright information

The Poetry of Petrarch by Petrarch, translated by David Young, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004, $30.00 cloth, ISBN 0374235325.

By the time the so-called Albigensian Crusade of the thirteenth century had stifled the troubadour culture in the south of France, a vernacular lyric tradition had already taken root in Sicily and would soon shift north and flower into the great love poetry of Petrarch, Cavalcanti, and Dante. Petrarch, born Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374) wrote in...

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