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Africa (Petrarch)

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33: 118:. A draft of the poem was completed by about 1343, but Petrarch continued to revise it, and the text was not made public until 1397, three decades after his death. It was dedicated to 369: 364: 32: 261: 134:
and his other classicizing works, but the epic was not particularly well-received because of the literary transposition from
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forces were eventually victorious after an invasion of north
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Africa (epic poem)

epic poem
Latin
hexameters
Italian
Petrarch
Second Punic War
Carthaginian
Hannibal
Roman
Africa
Scipio Africanus
Mago Barca
Syphax
Sophonisba
Vaucluse
1337
Robert of Naples
Sicily
Venice
Livy
"Petrarch's Africa"
doi
10.2307/289235
ISSN
0002-9475
JSTOR
289235
"Review of Petrarch's Africa.; Francesco Petrarca: Canzone from First to Final Version"

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