Dimensions
140 x 211 x 24mm
Petrarch's greatest gift to posterity was his Rime in vita e morta di Madonna Laura, the cycle of poems popularly known as his songbook, which record their speaker's unrequited obsession with the woman named Laura.
In the centuries after it was designed, the "Petrarchan sonnet," inspired the greatest love poets of the English language - from the times of Spenser and Shakespeare to our own.
