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"It did not seem to me to be a time to guard myself / against Loves blows: so I went on / confident, unsuspecting; from that, my t...
was forbidden to her, period. It was not her place to try to reason why; it was her place to obey without question. This is what w...
most tragic play" (line 8). Furthermore, he attests that this love is his "constant gate and fountain" of grief" (line 12). This ...
a riper age brought me to my senses and taught me by experience the truth I had long before read in books, that youth and pleasure...
But no such roses see I in her cheeks; 7 And in some perfumes is there more delight 8 Than in the breath that from...
In nine pages this paper discusses how Petrarch provides the Medieval to Renaissance transition and examines the poet's letters an...