num_pages: 160
description: Included in this highly useful volume are "Letter to Posterity"; 139 sonnets; odes 5, 6, 14, 16, 17, 21, and 29; the Metrical Letters "To Giacomo Colonna," and "To Italy"; and a complete list of sources. While most translations of Petrarch's work are by twentieth-century scholars in modern idiom, this insightful selection also presents classic translations by Chaucer, Wyatt, and Surrey. Edited by Thomas G. Bergin, this edition also contains a fine introduction, a list of principal dates in the life of Petrarch, as well as a bibliography
language: English
title: Selected Sonnets, Odes, and Letters
titlecomplete: Selected Sonnets, Odes, and Letters
genres: Classics, Poetry, Italian Literature
ratings_count: 33
publisher: Wiley-Blackwell