The Poetry of Petrarch, Paperback - Petrarch

Reducere. "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 ec...

This anthology highlights seven centuries of Italian poetry that will help you learn the language as well. Included are 34 examples of Italian vers...

We have become used to looking at art from a stance of detachment. In order to be objective, we create a "mental space" between ourselves and the o...

A key figure in the development of Western literature, the Greek poet Theocritus of Syracuse, was the inventor of ``bucolic`` or pastoral poetry in...

The works of Virgil (70-19 BCE) define the 'golden age' of Latin poetry and have inspired a long tradition of interpretation and adaptation that st...