num_pages: 672
description: For teachers and students of Petrarch, Durling's edition of the poems has become the standard one. Readers have praised the translation as both graceful and accurate, conveying a real understanding of what this difficult poet is saying. The literalness of the prose translation makes this beautiful book especially useful to students who lack a full command of Italian. And students reading the verse in the original will find here an authoritative text.
language: English
title: Petrarch's Lyric Poems: The Rime Sparse and Other Lyrics
titlecomplete: Petrarch's Lyric Poems: The Rime Sparse and Other Lyrics
genres: Classics, Italian Literature, 14th Century, Ancient History, Italy, Literature, Poetry
ratings_count: 286
publisher: Harvard University Press