{"product_id":"sonnets-and-shorter-poems-9780674062160","title":"Sonnets and Shorter Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Francesco Petrarch | David R. Slavitt\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: European - Italian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this volume, David R. Slavitt, the distinguished translator and author of more than one hundred works of fiction, poetry, and drama, turns his skills to \u003ci\u003eIl Canzoniere\u003c\/i\u003e (Songbook) by Petrarch, the most influential poet in the history of the sonnet. In Petrarch's hands, lyric verse was transformed from an expression of courtly devotion into a way of conversing with one's own heart and mind. Slavitt renders the sonnets in \u003ci\u003eIl Canzoniere\u003c\/i\u003e, along with the shorter madrigals and ballate, in a sparkling and engaging idiom and in rhythm and rhyme that do justice to Petrarch's achievement. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt the center of \u003ci\u003eIl Canzoniere \u003c\/i\u003e(also known as \u003ci\u003eRime Sparse, \u003c\/i\u003eor Scattered Rhymes) is Petrarch's obsessive love for Laura, a woman Petrarch asserts he first saw at Easter Mass on April 6, 1327, in the church of Sainte-Claire d'Avignon when he was twenty-two. Though Laura was already married, the sight of her woke in the poet a passion that would last beyond her premature death on April 6, 1348, exactly twenty-one years after he first encountered her. Unlike Dante's Beatrice--a savior leading the poet by the hand toward divine love--Petrarch's Laura elicits more earthbound and erotic feelings. David Slavitt's deft new translation captures the nuanced tone of Petrarch's poems--their joy and despair, and eventually their grief over Laura's death. Readers of poetry and especially those with an interest in the sonnet and its history will welcome this volume.","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47598827176087,"sku":"9780674062160","price":4863.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780674062160.webp?v=1775002170","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/sonnets-and-shorter-poems-9780674062160","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}