Petrarca, Francesco,  1304-1374 <br/><br/>
Fifteen sonnets of Petrarch 

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<br/><br/> "Fifteen sonnets of Petrarch" by Francesco Petrarca is a selection from a collection written over forty years, beginning shortly after 1327. These sonnets form part of Petrarch's larger work exploring his love for Laura, a woman he reportedly met in Avignon. The poems navigate courtly love, Christian spirituality, and the passage of time through elaborate antithesis and paradox. Written in Italian vernacular rather than Latin, these verses would profoundly influence Renaissance love poetry across Europe for centuries to come. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374 -- Translations into English 
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