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Jun 16, 2002 · Petrarch’s Canzoniere is an innovative collection of poems predominantly celebrating his idealised love for Laura, perhaps a literary invention rather than a real person, whom Petrarch allegedly first saw, in 1327, in the Church of Sainte Claire in Avignon.
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on the green grass and the lovely nearby mountain, from which poetry descends and rests; and the nightingale that laments and weeps. all night long, sweetly, in the shadows, fills the heart with thoughts of love: but you by departing from us my lord, only cut off such beauty, and make it imperfect.
Love, Fortune and my mind, shy of what. If the thought that torments me, Clear, sweet fresh water. I must turn these sorrowful verses, My Italy, though words cannot heal. Love leads me on, from thought to thought, Since the path to Mercy’s closed to me, I would sing of love in so new a way.
Petrarch uses Ovid's Metamorphoses to convey themes of instability, and also sources Virgil's Aeneid. Petrarch inherited aspects of artifice and rhetorical skill from Sicilian courtly poetry, including that of the inventor of the sonnet form, Giacomo da Lentini.
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Influenced by his interest in the classics, many of Petrarch’s poems are highly allegorical and constructed using Italian forms such as terza rima, ballate, sestine and canzoni. His poems investigate the connection between love and chastity in the foreground of a political landscape, though many of them are also driven by emotion and ...
Oct 31, 2002 · The entire Canzoniere are 365 poems written by the early humanist Francesco Petrarca, centering around his love for Laura. My version only had sixty of the poems, because a lot of them are hard to translate into English without losing a lot of the form and syntax that makes them special.
The 366 poems of Petrarch's Canzoniere represent one of the most influential works in Western literature. Varied in form, style, and subject matter, these "scattered rhymes" contains...
