Canzoniere: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Canzoniere, credited to Dante Alighieri, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Canzoniere by Dante Alighieri. (Translated by Edward Hayes Plumptre.) Read in English by Algy Pug; inflected; Joseph Schnebelen; Kristin Gjerløw; Peter Tucker; BeniaminoMassimo; TessaMarie1; Shakira Searle; DJRickyV; Mary J; Jordan Heron; Leni Le Rime (in English, The Rhymes) are the collection of lyric poems written by Dante Alighieri throughout his life. While the rest of Dante's works were prepared by himself for publication, these poems were written by him in letters, as parts of other works or independently, but only collected and ordered much later, by modern critics. Among these is found the famous collection of Rime Petrose, a cycle of poems dedicated to a woman nicknamed Pietra (Stone) due to her insensibility to the poet's love. As the work of a whole life, the poems are varied, and mirror the many different moments of Dante's thoughts, both poetically and philosophically. - Summary by Leni

Recording facts

• Recording title: Canzoniere
• Author credits: Dante Alighieri
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 87
• Listed recording duration: 3:46:28

Catalogue topics

• sonnets
• Ballads
• Italian literature
• rhymes
• dante

Opening tracks: first 24 of 87

1. 01 - Sonnet I - The First Vision of Love — 1:30
2. 02 - Sonnet II - What might have been — 1:22
3. 03 - Ballata I - De Profundis — 1:37
4. 04 - Sonnet III - Death of Beatrice's Friend, 1 — 1:23
5. 05 - Ballata II - Death of Beatrice's Friend, 2 — 1:42
6. 06 - Sonet IV - Love as Pilgrim — 1:23
7. 07 - Sonnet V - Separation — 1:25
8. 08 - Canzone I - The Lover's Plea for Pity — 4:28
9. 09 - Ballata III - Eyes Dim With Sorrow — 1:21
10. 10 - Ballata IV - Apologia Pro Vita Sua — 2:59
11. 11 - Sonnet VI - Inner Conflict — 1:21
12. 12 - Sonnet VII - Transformation — 1:20
13. 13 - Sonnet VIII - Drunk, But Not With Wine — 1:25
14. 14 - Sonnet IX - Nec Morbos, Nec Remedia Pati Possumus — 1:26
15. 15 - Canzone II - Laudes Beatricis — 4:46
16. 16 - Canzone III - Retrospection — 5:26
17. 17 - Sonnet X - The Birth of Love — 1:23
18. 18 - Sonnet XI - Beatrice's Salutation — 1:23
19. 19 - Sonnet XII - Beatrice`s Sorrows, 1 — 1:20
20. 20 - Sonnet XIII - Beatrice's Sorrows, 2 — 1:21
21. 21 - Sonnet XIV - The Company of Mourners — 1:17
22. 22 - Sonnet XV - What Tidings of Beatrice? — 1:16
23. 23 - Canzone IV - Forebodings — 5:25
24. 24 - Sonnet XVI - Giovanna and Beatrice — 1:18

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