The translation itself is accurate, strong and pungent."" -- CharlesTrinkaus ""This is philology at its best: scholarship thatenables us to hear the voices of the past.
A brilliant interpretation of Petrarch, the "Father of Humanism," based on contemporary material & on Petrarch's personal correspondence, by one of America's most gifted historians.
Written over the course of forty years (approximately between 1328-1368), this collection includes 317 sonnets, 29 canzoni, 9 sestine, 4 madrigals and 7 ballate.