by Amy Elizabeth Harper

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il canzoniere

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This soft ground etching is 18 x 24 inches and printed on 20 x 28 heavyweight 300 gm Fabriano paper."il canzoniere" is the title of the Italian poet Petrarco's first book of poetry, "songbook". The text separating the portrait horizontally is the first sonnet of "il canzoniere", credited with bringing Italian literature out of romanticism and into humanism. The portrait is of the Italian literary theorist and poet Pietro Bembo.

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