
To Wrestle with the Angel
Sonnets from Petrarch's "Chapbook" of 1337
Petrarch(Author)
Finishing Line Press
Published on 14. September 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
44 pages
978-1-63534-680-0 (ISBN)
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Language
English
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 3 mm
Weight
70 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-63534-680-0 (9781635346800)
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Francesco Petrarca, Petrarch to speakers of English, 1304-1374, was an Italian poet who grew up and spent a good bit of his life in and around Avignon, France. There, he claimed, he saw for the first time a beautiful, God-fearing, and married woman named Laura in church on Good Friday in 1327. By the end of 1337, he had assembled his first collection of lyric poems in Italian, and in 1341 was crowned poet laureate in Rome. Petrarch spent the next thirty years or so completing his masterpiece, variously known as Canzoniere, Rime sparse, and Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, chronicling its speaker's frustrated love for Laura while she lived and long after she died of bubonic plague in 1348.