This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

"" Cook addresses the deceptive simplicity of Petrarch's vocabulary, the work's cultural context rendered here as broadly modern rather than facilely archaic, and the elegance of his poetic diction. The Italian text (ed.

The literalness of the prose translation makes this book especially useful to students who lack a full command of Italian.

The first of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance, Petrarca was instrumental in establishing as a cultural goal the rediscovery and collection of manuscripts of the ancient Latin authors; thanks to Petrarca the humanist scholars who ...

A criticism of the papal court at Avignon.