Africa (Petrarch)
Africa is an epic by Francesco Petrarch , written between 1338 and 1343. It tells the story of the Second Punic War , in which the Carthaginian general Hannibal initially conquered Italy but was later defeated by Roman troops under the leadership of Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus , the hero of the epic, near Zama in North Africa.
expenditure
- Africa. Full text, Latin
- Francisci Petrarchae Florentini poetae eruditissimi Bucolica, Africa, Epistolae . Basel 1558.
- Africa . Latin, German. Commentary volume by Bernhard Huss and Gerhard Regn. 2 vols. Mainz: Dieterich'sche Verlagbuchhandlung 2007. ISBN 3-87162065-3
literature
- Stefania Voce: Bibliografia sull'Africa di Petrarca dal 1900 al 2002, Vol. 5. Africa. Cesena 2005. (Quaderni di Paideia.) ISBN 88-9006737-3