Petrarca, Francesco 1304-1374 creator Higginson, Thomas Wentworth 1823-1911 text utu 2015 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "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.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il_Canzoniere Release date is 2015-10-25 Produced by Carlo Traverso, Linda Cantoni, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net, in celebration of Distributed Proofreaders' 15th Anniversary, using images generously made available by The Internet Archive. Original publication data not identified Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374 -- Translations into English PQ Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50307 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50307 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134145.0 50307