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

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.

Winner of the 2002 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award for a Manuscript in Italian Literary Studies, Modern Language Association

THE COLLECTION represents a portrait of the artist as a young man seen through the eyes of the mature artist.

My Secret Book reveals a remarkable self-awareness as he probes and evaluates the springs of his own morally dubious addictions to fame and love.

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.