Welcome to the Petrarch Project

Welcome to the Oregon Petrarch Open Book Project: "Petrarch is again in sight." In a poem dedicated to Osip Mandelstam, a Russian poet who disappeared in Stalin's Gulag, Paul Celan speaks of a petrified desert where it is still possible to see a rudimentary form that leads him to conclude: "Petrarch is again in sight."

The OPOB includes Ettore Modigliani’s diplomatic edition of the Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta; Gianfranco Contini’s edition and *Giuseppe Savoca’s critical edition; the commentary by Alessandro Vellutello (1525), the Spanish and French translations by Enrique Garcés and Vasquin Philieul (16th century), an English translation (A. S. Kline), and partial translations in Russian, Chinese, Japanese and German.

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