Liszt, ’Pace non trovo’ (Petrarch Sonnet ) sung by Thomas Quasthoff

Liszt composed his settings of Francesco Petrarch’s sonnets (numbers 104, 47 and 123) during 1838-39. Petrarch (1304-1374) was an early master of the Italian sonnet form, and the text of Sonnet roughly translates as follows: