DocumentAmelia Rosselli The pivotal 1976 work of one of Italy's most significant post war voices asks how poetry can document lived experience while dialoguing with the Petrarchan sonnet tradition. Long fascinated by the classical sonnet as an ideal model, Rosselli took on the Petrarchan structure of a canzonierea text in which meaning is generated by sequenceto contain the flood of 175 poems for her third collection. Speaking of Document, Rosselli said: It