This Victorian collection gathers the best English versions of the whole Canzoniere, the sonnets and canzoni to Laura in life and in death, together with the Triumphs. Each poem is headed by its Italian first line and often given in two or three rival renderings, and Thomas Campbell’s Life of Petrarch with a chronology opens the volume.
The fullest older English Petrarch, a treasure for lovers of the sonnet and its origins. Download the free EPUB.