Petrarch

Canzoniere (eBook, ePUB)

A New Translation
Übersetzer: Juster, A. M.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The iconic Renaissance songbookan inspiration to love poets since the fourteenth centuryin an elegant, fluid, and inviting translation.

Petrarch's Canzoniere stands as one of the greatest and most influential collections of love poetry ever written. Expressing his unrequited devotion for Laurawith whom the young poet fell in love at first sightthe Canzoniere explores the tension between Petrarch's earthly desire and his spiritual longing for divine grace. 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. Unlike earlier translations that framed the Canzoniere as mere troubadour poetry, this version highlights its classical roots and modern sensibility. 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Liveright
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781324096504
• Artikelnr.: 75601397

Autorenporträt

Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374), scholar and man of letters, is considered the father of sonnet-writing. Although the majority of his work was composed in Latin, it is his collection of poems in the vernacular entitled 'Canzoniere' for which he is most remembered.
Anthony Mortimer holds the Chair of English Literature at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, and has been a Visiting Fellow at Merton College, Oxford. Publications include 'Petrarch's Canzoniere in the English Renaissance'