Poetry of Petrarch

Discover the timeless beauty and enduring influence of Petrarch''s love poetry in this fresh, approachable translation by David Young.

Petrarch''s Rime in vita e morta di Madonna Laura, popularly known as his songbook, is a cycle of poems that record the speaker''s unrequited obsession with a woman named Laura. By turns witty, languorous, and fawning, these tightly composed yet ornate poems inspire...