"Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio: Italy's Three Crowns". At the Bodleain Library, Oxford. Martin McLaughlin, Curator of the exhibition, introduces Italy's Three Crowns.
Liszt composed his settings of Francesco Petrarch's sonnets (numbers 104, 47 and 123) during 1838-39. Petrarch (1304-1374) was an early master of the Italian sonnet...
Vaughan Recital May 2008, Faulkner Auditorium, Dartmouth College Translated text of Petrarch Sonnets (Dacre, Nott) Petrarch Sonnets and Life. Various (trans.) UK: London, Bohn, 1859....
Here are two pieces from Liszt's Italian album of the 'Annees de Pelerinage'. These settings of Petrarch's sonnets were originally for voice and piano, but...