Essays on Petrarch by Ugo Foscolo

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">8vo. pp. VIII, 325. Signatures: [A]4, B-X8, Y4. Contemporary morocco-backed boards. Primarily in English, with appendices including Latin poetry and Greek translations, as well as facing pages of Petrarch’s Italian sonnets along with their English translations.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">First commercial edition, exposing the interpolated 34 lines on the death of Mago, in the 1781 edition of De bello punico secundo, as taken from Petrarch’s epic Africa, and printing, for the first time, ‘the translation [of these appropriated lines] by a great poet of our age’, i.e. his correspondent Lord Byron, together with Petrarch’s original, at pp. 214-16. Although Foscolo clearly assumed the verse to be genuinely Byron’s, the tran