Rhymes (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Francesco Petrarca
- First Published: 1470
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Sonnet
- Subjects: Love or romance, Poetry or poets, Emotions, Women, Idealism, Italy or Italians, Mortality, Heaven, Puns or punning
Critical Evaluation:
Of the 366 poems included in the collection that Petrarch made of his poetry, 317 are sonnets, twenty-nine canzoni, nine sestine, seven ballate, and four madrigals. In giving the work the title Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, Petrarch called attention to the fact that the brief poems were written not in Latin but in the vernacular. The work also became known as Rime (Rhymes) or Canzoniere.
In considering the sonnets and songs of Petrarch, the poet is invariably compared with Dante Alighieri, who also wrote in the vernacular...
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