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O you who hear within these scattered verses The sound of sighs with which I fed my… — Petrarch

Poem

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.

In the original Italian

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
1352
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Learning from the pastLooking back
Medium
Poem
Time
1352The Renaissance
Person
Petrarch
Provenance
Current citation
Petrarch. "Selections from the Canzoniere." Selections from the Canzoniere and Other Works. Oxford University Press, 1999.
Original citation
Petrarch. Rerum vulgarium fragmenta. c. 1352.

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