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Article: Petrarch's Songbook: Rerun Vulgarium Fragmenta.
- Article from:
- Renaissance Quarterly
- Article date:
- December 22, 1997
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Perhaps if the study of Italian language, literature, and culture among us were half as current as Italian food and sartorial design, there would be little need for good translations of the great medieval and Renaissance texts. Of course the reality is quite otherwise: Italian is becoming less, not more, familiar, and yet anyone who attempts seriously to inform undergraduate or graduate students of the brilliant tradition of the Western lyric poem or more narrowly of the lyric assembly or collection is bound somehow to try to bring the great achievement of Petrarch into focus. For nearly a generation the main resource has been the prose translation of Robert Durling, or ...