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Article: The Poetry of Petrarch.(Book Review)
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- Harvard Review
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- June 1, 2005
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The Poetry of Petrarch by Petrarch, translated by David Young, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004, $30.00 cloth, ISBN 0374235325.
By the time the so-called Albigensian Crusade of the thirteenth century had stifled the troubadour culture in the south of France, a vernacular lyric tradition had already taken root in Sicily and would soon shift north and flower into the great love poetry of Petrarch, Cavalcanti, and Dante. Petrarch, born Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374) wrote in his native Italian, although he spent much of his life in France and drew on troubadours such as Arnaut Daniel for signature imagery (winter scenery, for example), formal devices (especially the ...