Sonetto CCCXXXIII di Petrarca

I have been a member of the jury of the “Guido d’Arezzo” International Composition Competition on several occasions (the last time I shared this honour with Luigi Dallapiccola and Goffredo Petrassi). My wife often accompanied me to these events in Arezzo and I must confess that we very much enjoyed Petrarch’s beautiful hometown.

It is therefore no coincidence that, when my wife died in 1992, the first work I wrote and dedicated to her memory was based on Petrarch’s sonnet CCCXXXIII — Ferenc Farkas