Petrarch's 'Triumphi' in the British Isles

Winner of the 2021 Associazione Italiana di Anglistica book prize for a critical edition in the field of English literature.

This edition argues that Petrarch's text has been neglected by modern scholarship in favour of the translations of the Canzoniere, while it can be shown that the Triumphi enjoyed a much earlier and much more durable fame in Europe as well as in the British Isles, being translated at least twice in its entirety, with individual books and smaller sections being translat...