← PetrarchCanzoniereby PetrarchSequence of sonnets and verses celebrating unrequited love for a womanFind 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 PetrarchTrionfiAllegorical poems on triumphs of love, chastity, death, fame, time→AfricaUnfinished epic on Scipio Africanus and the Second Punic War→SecretumProse dialogue between Petrarch and Augustine discussing inner conflict and sin→