Essays on Petrarch
Essay
3 preliminary leaves, 325 pages folded facsimile 22 cm
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On the love of Petrarch
On the poetry of Petrarch
On the character of Petrarch
A parallel between Dante and Petrarch
Appendix: I. Specimens of Petrarch's Latin poetry. II. Specimens of Greek amatory poetry, from Sappho down to the writers of the lower empire. III. A theory of Platonic love, by Lorenzo de' Medici. IV. Comparative description of woman's beauty according to Platonic ideas, by the early Italian poets. V. Petrarch's unpublished letters in Italian (with facsimile) VI. A letter, in Latin, of Dante's lately discovered (Epistola "amico florentino") VII. Translations from Petrarch, by Barbarina lady Dacre