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Poetry · 1374

Canzoniere

Petrarch

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Poetry · 1374 · Italian · Medieval

Canzoniere

Petrarch

366 poems for Laura, alive and dead.

SonnetLyricLongingTimeSelf

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Petrarch invented the lyric self that Europe copied for three centuries: love as a permanent internal weather report.

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