 Other than these works few articles have been written on Petrarch's epic poem in English, however there have been various serious scholarly works written in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in French, Italian, and German.To Petrarch, his "Africa" was his "croce e delizia" for the rest of his life.Petrarch set great store by "Africa" and his other classicizing works, but the epic was not particularly well-received because of the literary transposition from Livy; the two parts of the "death of Magone" and the "love story of Sofonisba" have been rather better received.