lauravolsic's review
3.0
cetla jsem sonety laure, ale knizka nemela isbn, takze 🤷🏻♀️
prumer, bylo to fajn
prumer, bylo to fajn
pinoncoffee's review
5.0
The author Petrarch, Italy in the 1300s, is where we get all those love poem tropes! He was influential, I’m pretty sure, because he’s the kind of author who inspires readers to go away and write some of that too, and therefore we got generations of poems to perfectly noble and beautiful ladies.
It’s actually a little brain-bending. He’s outspokenly Christian and also had a years-long unrequited passion for Laura. This caused a certain amount of inner conflict.
His writings are all short and to the point, and tend to be organized around a bright central image, so a decent amount of the poem-ness carries through in translation. And, as mentioned above, you may go away oozing poetry of your own.
Besides love poems, we also have here a handful of (then) current event poems and a literal mountaintop spiritual experience, heavily inspired by Augustine’s Confessions. WHO KNEW.
It’s actually a little brain-bending. He’s outspokenly Christian and also had a years-long unrequited passion for Laura. This caused a certain amount of inner conflict.
His writings are all short and to the point, and tend to be organized around a bright central image, so a decent amount of the poem-ness carries through in translation. And, as mentioned above, you may go away oozing poetry of your own.
Besides love poems, we also have here a handful of (then) current event poems and a literal mountaintop spiritual experience, heavily inspired by Augustine’s Confessions. WHO KNEW.
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