Francesco Petrarca

The present translation of Petrarch completes the Illustrated Library series of the Italian Poets emphatically distinguished as 'I Quattro Poeti Italiani.' It is rather a singular fact that, while the other three Poets of this world-famed series—Dante, Ariosto, and Tasso—have each found several translators, no complete version of the fourth, and in Italy the most popular, has hitherto been presented to the English reader. This lacune becomes...