It was an edition of the "Canzone di petrarca" and I felt soothed and refreshed by their gentle harmony.
"The Dead Lake and Other Tales"
Paul Heyse
Within an hour he had the ode-not perhaps such a poem as might stand comparison with the verses of Messer petrarca, yet a very passable effusion, chaste of conceit and palpitating with sincerity and adoration.
"The Shame of Motley"
Raphael Sabatini
There is the same facile beauty of the rhymes the same freshness of the rhythm-remotely resembling that of petrarca, yet very different.
"The Shame of Motley"
Raphael Sabatini
