Front matter
Thomas Wentworth Higginson translation
Transcriber’s Note: Printer errors in the Italian sonnets are noted in the Transcriber’s Note at the end of this file, along with a list of the corresponding sonnet numbers in Il Canzoniere.
INTRODUCTION SONNETS

FIFTEEN SONNETS OF PETRARCH
SELECTED AND TRANSLATED BY THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON PUBLISHED BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN & COMPANY BOSTON AND NEW YORK MDCCCCIII
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