{"product_id":"the-poetry-of-petrarch","title":"The Poetry of Petrarch","description":"\"David Young's version of Petrarch will refresh our images of the West's crucial lyric poet. We are given a Petrarch in our own vernacular, with echoes of Wyatt, Shakespeare, and many who come after.\" --Harold Bloom\n\nIneffable sweetness, bold, uncanny sweetness\nthat came to my eyes from her lovely face;\nfrom that day on I'd willingly have closed them,\nnever to gaze again at lesser beauties.\n--from Sonnet 116\n\nPetrarch was born in Tuscany and grew up in the south of France. He lived his life in the service of the church, traveled widely, and during his lifetime was a revered, model man of letters.\n\nPetrarch's greatest gift to posterity was his Rime in vita e morta di Madonna Laura, the cycle of poems popularly known as his songbook. By turns full of wit, languor, and fawning, endlessly inventive, in a tightly composed yet ornate form they record their speaker's unrequited obsession with the woman named Laura. In the centuries after it was designed, the \"Petrarchan sonnet,\" as it would be known, inspired the greatest love poets of the English language-from the times of Spenser and Shakespeare to our own.\n\nDavid Young's fresh, idiomatic version of Petrarch's poetry is the most readable and approachable that we have. In his skillful hands, Petrarch almost sounds like a poet out of our own tradition bringing the wheel of influence full circle.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0374529612\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.0374529612.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Petrarch|Young, David\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: This copy has clearly been enjoyed—expect noticeable shelf wear and some minor creases to the cover. Binding is strong, and all pages are legible. May contain previous library markings or stamps.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41431652335674,"sku":"DBV.0374529612.A","price":5.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0374529612-0.jpg?v=1779730999","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/the-poetry-of-petrarch","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}