Petrarch's Lyric Poems: The <i>Rime Sparse</i> and Other Lyrics

For teachers and students of Petrarch, Durling's edition of the poems has become the standard one. Readers have praised the translation as both graceful and accurate, conveying a real understanding of what this difficult poet is saying. The literalness of the prose translation makes this beautiful book especially useful to students who lack a full command of Italian. And students reading the verse in the original will find here an authoritative text.Francesco Petrarch is the author of 'Petrarch's Lyric Poems: The Rime Sparse and Other Lyrics', published 1976 under ISBN 9780674663459 and ISBN 0674663454.