O you who hear within these scattered verses
The sound of sighs with which I fed my heart
In my first errant youthful days when I
In part was not the man I am today.

Voi ch' ascoltate in rime sparse il suono
Di quei sospiri ond'io nudriva 'l core
In sul mio primo giovenile errore,
Quand' era in parte altr' uom da quel ch' i' sono.

Petrarch

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Topic

Learning from the past Looking back

Author

Petrarch

Medium

Poem

Language

Italian

Time

1352 1350s 14th century

Era

European Renaissance

Occupation

Poet Scholar

From

Italy Europe

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Petrarch. Rerum vulgarium fragmenta. c. 1352.

Current Citation

Petrarch. "Selections from the Canzoniere." Selections from the Canzoniere and Other Works. Oxford University Press, 1999.

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Language
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Time
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Era
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Current Citation

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