(translated in English as 'Scattered Rhymes') is a collection of 14th century poems famed for their deep exploration of love, grief, spirituality and nature. Written over the course of forty years (approximately between 1328-1368), this collection includes 317 sonnets, 29 canzoni, 9 sestine, 4 madrigals and 7 ballate. also serves as a valuable contemporary insight into 14th century religion and the role of the papacy in Christendom.Petrarch's work is one of civilization's most immaculate achievements. Michael R. G. Spiller regards as 'the single greatest inspiration for the love poetry of Renaissance Europe until well into the seventeenth century'.Here's a madrigal, number 52 in the sequence.