This volume provides a new critical edition of the Latin text based on the two autograph copies, and the first English translation of three of the four invectives.

, XXIV, 13), and the three books of poetic epistles to Marco Barbato (Praefatio, loc. cit., pp. 15, 16, and Fam., XXII, 3). Farther on in his prefatory letter to Socrates, Petrarch points

Francesco Petrarca (Italian pronunciation: [franˈtʃesko peˈtrarka], 1304–1374), commonly anglicized as Petrarch ( pi: trɑ:rk, ˈpɛtrɑ:rk ), was an Italian scholar and poet in Renaissance Italy, who was one of the earliest humanists.

The first English translation of Petrarch’s Psalms and Prayers provides an intimate look at the personal devotions of the “Father of Humanism.” Throughout Petrarch’s work, there is an undercurrent of tension between the secular and ...

Containing English language versions of Franceso Petrarch's poems from across six centuries, this book includes English poems influenced by Petrarch.