CANZONIERE
Petrarch, Francesco / Hughes, Cassidy FRANCESCO PETRARCH: CANZONIERE
Edited by Thomas Campbell and Cassidy Hughes
Francesco Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca, 1304-1374) is the supreme poet of love in the Western tradition, alongside poets such as Sappho and William Shakespeare. Francesco Petrarch is also the Renaissance artist and humanist par excellence. Petrarchism is termed the longest poetic tradition in the Occident, and Petrarch has influenced poets such as Maurice Scève, S...