Author: Francesco Petrarca
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Keywords: fortune, translation, remediis, utriusque, english, commentary, modern, remedies, fair, foul, petrarch
Number of Pages: 5
Published: 1991-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0253348447
ISBN-13: 9780253348449

"... historical lore and tales of virtue, rascality and wonder from ancient and medieval times. Conrad H. Rawski... gives us a translation that is muscular, graceful and suggestive of Petrarch’s Latin style... Anyone who can get to a library that can afford this work will find a great old world filled with humor, folly, failure and glory, all suffused with an eloquent and gentle wisdom." -- New York Times Book Review"... reveals much about the life situation, the external hazards and the inner moral dilemmas of European society... The translation itself is accurate, strong and pungent."