Petrarch's Canzoniere

A classic of world literature, brought to the 21st
century in direct, rhymed, English verse.Guides the reader with scholarly notes.Completes the life work of Peter Thornton, whose translation
of Dante’s Inferno “immediately joins ranks
with the very best available in English” (Richard Lansing).The complete poetry sequence, including all of Petrarch’s
love poems to Laura, one of civilization’s founding achievements, opening out
into spirituality and nature and refining the sonnet form.