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Lyric Poems: The "Rime Sparse" and Other Lyrics: The "Rime Sparse" and Other Lyrics [Paperback]

R Durling (Author)

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Paperback: 624 pages
Publisher: Harvard University Press; New edition edition (1 July 1976)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0674663489
ISBN-13: 978-0674663480
Product Dimensions: 23.3 x 13.8 x 3.3 cm
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 262,868 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #43 in Books > Fiction > Poetry & Drama > Poetry > World > Italian

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For teachers and students of Petrarch, Durling's edition of the poems has become the standard one. Readers have praised the translation as both graceful and accurate, conveying a real understanding of what this difficult poet is saying. The literalness of the prose translation makes this beautiful book especially useful to students who lack a full command of Italian. And students reading the verse in the original will find here an authoritative text.

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Captures Petrach's fragmented soul 6 April 2002

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Durling, one of this generations greatest scholars in Italian lyric poetry, captures the essence of Petrarch's fragmented soul as none other has yet been able to in an english translation. The text includes facing page Italian (so it is excellent for students of the Langauge) and Durling has done everything possible to preserve the lyric beauty of Petrarch's verse.

Yet one must remeber that this is not a critical edition. Durlings commentary (if one can call it that) leaves much to be desired. Suprising also is the fact that Durling completely ignores the division in two parts (traditionally called "in life", 1-263 and "in death" 264-366. Petrarch clearly intended there to be a division, leaving blank pages in the Vatican manuscript, Vat. Lat. 3195. For those who desire a critical edition I would recomend Marco Santagata's 1996 edition (Mondadori), however it is entirely in Italian.

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