{"title":"Petrarch","description":"The sonnets of Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca, 1304-74) helped to establish Italian as a literary language. David Young is the author of nine volumes of poetry, most recently of At the White Window.","products":[{"product_id":"canzoniere-a-new-translation-hardcover","title":"Canzoniere: A New Translation - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePetrarch's \u003cem\u003eCanzoniere\u003c\/em\u003e stands as one of the greatest and most influential collections of love poetry ever written. In a classic story of love at first sight, the young poet expresses in beautiful verse his unrequited reverence for Laura, a muse who would prove as inspirational as Beatrice to Dante. Stricken with grief after Laura's death, Petrarch transmuted his sorrow onto the page and continued working on the \u003cem\u003eCanzoniere\u003c\/em\u003e until his own passing. At once movingly romantic and grandly meditative, always present within Petrarch's lines is a tension between his earthly desire and his spiritual longing for divine grace.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In this monumental translation, the project of a lifetime, renowned poet A.M. Juster preserves the original text's formal elegance, honoring Petrarch's rhyme and meter while also capturing the profound religious and philosophical undertones that imbue the work. Rather than framing \u003cem\u003eCanzoniere\u003c\/em\u003e as mere \"troubadour poetry,\" this version, along with a panoramic introduction by Andrew Frisardi, highlights its classical roots and contemporary sensibilities. Juster, a celebrated poet and translator, brings Petrarch's vision to life with precision and grace, offering a rendition that is both faithful to the original and eminently accessible to contemporary readers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376788340959,"sku":"9781324096498","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/kcmKV79ANd9781324096498.webp?v=1789225338"},{"product_id":"the-poetry-of-petrarch-paperback","title":"The Poetry of Petrarch - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"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\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eIneffable sweetness, bold, uncanny sweetness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ethat came to my eyes from her lovely face; \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003efrom that day on I'd willingly have closed them, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003enever to gaze again at lesser beauties.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--from Sonnet 116 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePetrarch 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePetrarch'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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDavid 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.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378262835423,"sku":"9780374529611","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/ZEqOCGX9Vx9780374529611.webp?v=1789250894"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/petrarch.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}