1582 POETRY by PETRARCH antique VELLUM BOUND book LE RIME DEL PETRARCA

Petrarca, Francesco.

Le rime del Petrarca brevemente sposte per Lodovico Castelvetro.

Basilea, Pietro de Sedabonis e Peter Perna, 1582.

Size 7 by 9' (218 x 160 mm)

2 parts in 1 volume

[16], 447, [1]; 378 [i.e. 394], [2] pp

Modern binding, manuscript title on the spine

text in Italian

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Francesco Petrarca (1304 – 1374), commonly anglicized as Petrarch , was a scholar and poet of early Renaissance Italy, and one of the earliest humanists.

Petrarch's rediscovery of Cicero's letters is often credited with initiating the 14th-century Italian Renaissance and the founding of Renaissance humanism. In the 16th century, Pietro Bembo created the model for the modern Italian language based on Petrarch's works, as well as those of Giovanni Boccaccio, and, to a lesser extent, Dante Alighieri. Petrarch would be later endorsed as a model for Italian style by the Accademia della Crusca.

Petrarch's sonnets were admired and imitated throughout Europe during the Renaissance and became a model for lyrical poetry. He is also known for being the first to develop the concept of the "Dark Ages," which most modern scholars now find misleading and inaccurate.
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