LOVE’S CRUCIFIX · NINE SONNETS AND A CANZONE · FROM PETRARCH BY AGNES TOBIN · WITH A PREFACE BY ALICE MEYNELL · ILLUSTRATED BY GRAHAM ROBERTSON _The Sonnets of Petrarch did as much as the Divina Commedia of Dante to establish the language of Italy. The two poets were Tuscans, and Tuscan—rather than any other of the many forms of the “soft bastard Latin”—became, because of them, classical. It is true that such an influence as this has not been so important in Italy as it would have been in a literary nation. The day of Dante and Petrarch past, it is not possible—even though her novels and her ingenious rhythms set the literary fashions during a couple of centuries—to name Italy a literary na…
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