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Petrarch's Lyric Poems: The Rime Sparse and Other Lyrics


Francesco Petrarca
    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.