Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English

Love's crucifix

Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374; Meynell, Alice, 1847-1922 [Author of introduction, etc.]; Robertson, W. Graham (Walford Graham), 1866-1948 [Illustrator]; Tobin, Agnes, 1864-1939 [Translator]· 1 chapters· 2,506 words

_The Sonnets of Petrarch did as much as the Divina Commedia of Dante to establish the language of Italy. The two poets were Tuscans, and Tuscan—rather than any other of the many forms of the “soft bastard Latin”—became, because of them, classical. It is true that such an influ...