Essays on Petrarch
By: by Ugo Foscolo
Publisher: Printed for the author by Samuel and Richard Bentley
Published: 1821
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
Subjects: Autographs; Platonic love
Table of contents: title: On the love of Petrarch.; title: On the poetry of Petrarch.; title: On the character of Petrarch.; title: A parallel between Dante and Petrarch.; title: Appendix: I. Specimens of Petrarch's Latin poetry. II. Specimens of Greek amatory poetry, from Sappho down to the writers of the lower empire. III. A theory of Platonic love, by Lorenzo de' Medici. IV. Comparative description of woman's beauty according to Platonic ideas, by the early Italian poets. V. Petrarch's unpublished letters in Italian. VI. A letter in Latin of Dante's lately discovered.