Translate
Author(s): Petrarch
Reader(s): Lesser, Anton
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Poetry
Period: Medieval
Catalogue No: NA135812
Barcode: 9781843793588
Release Date: 01/2010
PETRARCH, F.: Great Poets (The) (Unabridged)
Petrarch, the contemporary of Dante and Boccaccio, achieved fame in his own day as a scholar and founder of Renaissance humanism, but today he is chiefly remembered as a poet of love.
His great cycle of sonnets addressed to the dazzling Laura occupied him for 40 years, forming an emotional and spiritual autobiography that moves between joy and despair. These poems established the themes and images of love poetry which was to spread throughout Renaissance Europe, influencing Sidney, Spenser and Shakespeare.
This recording presents 59 of the Laura sonnets, including some of the most powerful, addressed to her spirit after death by the heartbroken poet.
Tracklist
Petrarch - Author
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
|
 |
1 | The Dawn of Love | 01:09 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
|
|
2 | If this should not be love | 01:03 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
|
|
3 | The pangs of love | 01:02 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
|
|
4 | If Laura were to die | 01:01 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
|
|
5 | Alone, thought-sick, I pace | 00:55 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
|
|
6 | Blest be the day | 00:58 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
|
|
7 | Golden upon the wind | 01:04 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
|
|
8 | The poet turns from other works to write again of love | 01:03 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
|
|
9 | Tears turn to joy | 01:02 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
|
|
10 | He tries to escape, but passion pursues | 00:58 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
|
|
11 | He is like a moth entering a flame | 00:53 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
|
|
12 | Alas! the seventeenth summer | 01:07 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
|
|
13 | The madness of desire | 00:49 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
|
|
14 | Laura confesses her sadness at their parting | 00:57 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
|
|
15 | I find no peace | 01:05 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
|
|
16 | In what bright realm | 01:00 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
|
|
17 | Love and I | 00:58 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
|
|
18 | It is the vigil | 01:10 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
|
|
19 | Through forests harsh | 00:54 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
|
|
20 | Trapped in the net of love | 01:05 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
|
|
21 | My vessel, cargoed with oblivion | 01:00 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
|
|
22 | The vision of the fawn – symbol of love liberated | 01:03 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
|
|
23 | Here stand we, Love | 01:03 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
|
|
24 | The soft wind (which is Laura's name) | 01:04 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
|
|
25 | The quiet wind recalls love's wound | 01:07 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
|
|
26 | From what source could Love | 01:08 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
|
|
27 | Memories of the birth of love | 01:08 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
|
|
28 | When in the sea sinks the sun's golden light | 01:07 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
|
|
29 | No savage beast | 01:06 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
|
|
30 | Her brilliant eyes | 00:55 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
|
|
31 | If it be destined | 00:53 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
|
|
32 | Breeze that with laughter moving | 01:06 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
|
|
33 | The day I left her | 01:02 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
|
|
34 | Foreboding in the night | 00:51 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
|
|
35 | Hearing of Laura's death | 01:06 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
|
|
36 | Remembering his last sight of Laura | 01:09 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
|
|
37 | Now that all hope is dead | 01:09 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
|
|
38 | Death pursues life | 00:58 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
|
|
39 | The soft winds of Vaucluse recall Laura | 01:02 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
|
|
40 | The last of my bright days | 01:06 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
|
|
41 | The apparition of Laura | 01:02 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
|
|
42 | Love guides him, but to no avail | 01:03 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
|
|
43 | Love calls, but you are gone | 00:54 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
|
|
44 | The impact of Laura's death | 00:58 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
|
|
45 | Valley, familiar with my desperate song | 01:04 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
|
|
46 | The apotheosis of Laura | 00:56 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
|
|
47 | He anticipates reunion with Laura | 01:02 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
|
|
48 | She speaks to him from heaven | 01:12 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
|
|
49 | A vision of Laura in heaven | 00:58 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
|
|
50 | The spring returns | 01:08 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
|
|
51 | That nightingale who weeps so sweetly | 01:03 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
|
|
52 | O swifter than the fawn | 01:16 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
|
|
53 | The ardour and the odour and dark wonder | 01:06 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
|
|
54 | Not skies serene | 01:07 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
|
|
55 | Go, grief-bewildered rhymes | 00:55 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
|
|
56 | For our own sake I seemed so cruel | 01:12 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
|
|
57 | Death has put out the burning of the sun | 01:08 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
|
|
58 | Love kept me one and twenty years a slave | 01:02 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
|
|
59 | Sweet wandering bird | 01:07 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Total Playing Time: 01:01:29