 Il Canzoniere

Il Canzoniere (; ), also known as the "Rime Sparse" (), but originally titled (, that is "Fragments composed in vernacular"), is a collection of poems by the Italian humanist, poet, and writer Petrarch.Though the majority of Petrarch's output was in Latin, the "Canzoniere" was written in the vernacular, a language of trade, despite Petrarch's view that Italian was less adequate for expression.