Solinka, Petrarch, Montale

I read several poems of Montale, published in English under the title Bones of Cuttlefish ("Ossi de Seppia"). I liked it in an aesthetic, non-rational way, that is to say, I read it trying to not engage my brain. I also read two plays by Wole Soyinka, neither of which I like that much: The Lion and the Jewel, and A Dance in the Forest. Finally, I read two books on Petrarch, a biography and the account of an exhibition commemorating the 700th anniversary of his birth. I believe I had forgotten to mention I had read the Canzoniere in Italian while sitting in a beauty parlor...never waste a minute I guess....