Petrarchan Love and the Continental Renaissance

by Gordon Braden

Book Overview

The 366 lyrics of Petrarch's Canzoniere exert a unique influence in literary history. From the mid-fifteenth century to the early seventeenth, the poems are imitated in every major language of western Europe, and for a time they provide Renaissance Europe with an almost exclusive sense of what love poetry should be. In this stimulating look at the international phenomenon of Petrarch's poetry, Gordon Braden focuses on materials in languages...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300207522
• ISBN13: 9780300207521
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"