Francesco Petrarca — a remark

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“In my younger days I struggled with an overwhelming but honest love — my only one — and I should have struggled longer had not a bitter but salutary death put out the cooling flame.”

Original: Amore acerrimo sed unico et honesto in adolescentia laboravi, et diutius laborassem nisi iam tepescentem ignem mors acerba sed utilis extinxisset. — His own later account of the Laura passion, stripped of lyric ornament. · Letter to Posterity (Posteritati) (Latin)

Francesco Petrarca

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Francesco Petrarca

1304–19 July 1374

Francesco Petrarca, known in English as Petrarch, was born on 20 July 1304 in Arezzo, Tuscany, and died during the night of 18–19 July 1374 at Arquà, near Padua. He stands among the decisive makers of European literary culture: a poet whose Italian lyrics established an enduring language of desire; a Latin author who…

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