LADY ON THE WEB

The book, two inches thick, is bound in a sober ink. Stamped on the spine, in white, is PETRARCH/Canzoniere/M U S A, with a charming rectangular cartouche.

Unable to wait, I have shot through the first three, and yes, they are beautiful, entering the mind simply and swiftly. I can already see that the difficulty with this excellent translation will be to read them slowly; with the overwrought translations I saw before, the difficulty was in getting through them!