Petrarca: Le Rime (Petrarch: The Rimes) contains the “Canzoniere” and “I Trionfi” (the Triumphs), the poems in the early Italian language of Petrarch (“Father of Humanism”), among the highest in Italian poetry. The Canzoniere tells of unrequited love for Laura, the center around which the very rich and original spiritual life of the poet develops. Other themes are important: religion, poetry, politics, time, glory. The Triumphs describe an allegorical representation of human life, from the struggle against the passions to the awareness of the transience of earthly things, to the final victory of Eternity.
This annoteBook also offers a surprise: for each of 378 compositions, a brief explanation of another brilliant...
Petrarca: Le Rime (Petrarch: The Rimes) contains the “Canzoniere” and “I Trionfi” (the Triumphs), the poems in the early Italian language of Petrarch (“Father of Humanism”), among the highest in Italian poetry. The Canzoniere tells of unrequited love for Laura, the center around which the very rich and original spiritual life of the poet develops. Other themes are important: religion, poetry, politics, time, glory. The Triumphs describe an allegorical representation of human life, from the struggle against the passions to the awareness of the transience of earthly things, to the final victory of Eternity.
This annoteBook also offers a surprise: for each of 378 compositions, a brief explanation of another brilliant Italian poet, Giacomo Leopardi, a great admirer of Petrarch, introduces the subject of the work.
Unique in its features:
• Index of poems
• Notes can be written for each verse
• Automatic bookmark: by reopening the application you will be automatically repositioned where you left the reading
• Powerful search engine by words
• Easy reading with a choice of font sizes
• Landscape reading with big font
• Choice of background page color for reading under different ligth conditions
• "Poem of the Day": a random poem from the collection
An internet connection is not required.
New features in the next version.
Available annoteBooks by Dathlon
In English:
Dante: Divine Comedy
Lewis Carroll: 101 Poems
Shakespeare: Sonnets
Milton: Paradise Lost - Regain’d
Shelley: Poems, vol. 2 - 3
In Italian:
Dante: Divina Commedia
Omero: Odissea
Omero: Iliade
Virgilio: Eneide
Ariosto: Orlando Furioso
Tasso: Gerusalemme Liberata
Leopardi: Canti
Foscolo: Tutte le poesie
Tassoni: La Secchia Rapita
D’Annunzio: Laudi
Carducci: Opere
D’Annunzio: Versi d’Amore