← PetrarchAfricaby PetrarchUnfinished epic on Scipio Africanus and the Second Punic WarFind on Amazon↗About the authorPetrarchItalian poet and humanist whose Canzoniere, a sequence of 366 poems mostly addressed to Laura, defined the sonnet form and the Petrarchan love tradition. He is often called the first modern poet.More by PetrarchCanzoniereSequence of sonnets and verses celebrating unrequited love for a woman→TrionfiAllegorical poems on triumphs of love, chastity, death, fame, time→SecretumProse dialogue between Petrarch and Augustine discussing inner conflict and sin→