Petrarch in Global Translation (PGT) is a collaborative humanities project across languages and national borders that aims to investigate the foundational conception of Western love as codified by Francesco Petrarca’s Canzoniere, arguably the most influential book of love poetry ever written. This project will develop an innovative global approach to Petrarchan poetry as a grammar of love by way of translation. By re-engaging the practice of Petrarchism, which has spawned centuries of literary production and critical reception in an unparalleled fashion, PGT proposes a simultaneously theoretical and experimental, historical and systematic approach to identifying the dominant ‘poetics of love’ in the Western tradition.