Complete Poems: Dual Language

A wonderful collection. Cavalcanti, a contemporary and friend of the more famous Dante, is a poet worthy of much greater attention than he has typically received among English speakers, and Mortimer's translations, each with the original on the facing page, will prove an extremely inviting manner for readers to become more fully acquainted with him and his work.

Cavalcanti stays true to the difficult things in era artful ways.

"Then she opened up a book of poemsAnd handed it to meWritten by an Italian poetFrom the thirteenth centuryAnd every one of them words rang trueAnd glowed like burnin’ coalPourin’ off of every pageLike it was written in my soul from me to youTangled up in blue...."Now maybe that was Petrarch, but it could definitely be Cavalcanti, because he is SMOKING.

Great edition of the poems with parallel Italian text opposite translations.