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Petrarch's Songbook

Francesco Petrarca

Form
Form Poetry Collection
Year
Year 1341
Originally in
Originally in Italian
Pages
Pages 700

A poet spends decades writing sonnets to a woman he loves from a distance and can never have, and keeps writing them after her death, torn between his desire for her and his hope of turning that love toward God.

I fynde no peace and all my warre is done,
Petrarch's Songbook, Francesco Petrarca

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