Sonetten en andere gedichten

by Francesco Petrarca, Frans van Dooren (Translator)

Genres: Poetry, Medieval, Italian Literature, Literature

149 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1979

About the author

Famous Italian poet, scholar, and humanist Francesco Petrarca, known in English as Petrarch, collected love lyrics in Canzoniere .

People often call Petrarch the earliest Renaissance "father of humanism". Based on Petrarch's works, and to a lesser extent those of Dante Alighieri and Giovanni Boccaccio, Pietro Bembo in the 16th century created the model for the modern Italian language, which the Accademia della Crusca later endorsed. People credit Petrarch with developing the sonnet. They admired and imitated his sonnets, a model for lyrical poems throughout Europe during the Renaissance. Petrarch called the Middle Ages the Dark Ages.

Reviews

[Victor Haché]

Hoe kon ik dit laten liggen van de man die de term middeleeuwen uitvond 😍

"Ook zijn er die verlangend lichtwaarts snellen omdat de flonkeringen hen behagen... mijn ogen blijken huilend op zoek naar't vuur dat hen verzengt."

Man was verliefd met grote V

Ik twijfel tussen 3 en 4 sterren

[Marc Lamot]

Very fine love poetry, indeed, but - alas - very common today (of course no fault by Petrarca). Typical medieval mentality in his reservations about earthly love.