Selected Sonnets Odes and Letters (Crofts Classics)

About this book

Included in this highly useful volume are "Letter to Posterity"; 139 sonnets; odes 5 6 14 16 17 21 and 29; the Metrical Letters "To Giacomo Colonna " and "To Italy"; and a complete list of sources. While most translations of Petrarchs work are by twentieth-century scholars in modern idiom this insightful selection also presents classic translations by Chaucer Wyatt and Surrey. Edited by Thomas G. Bergin this edition also contains a fine introduction a list of principal dates in the life of Petrarch as well as a bibliography