“The waters speak of love and the breeze and the branches and the little birds and the fish and the flowers and the grass, all together begging me always to love. But you, born in a happy hour, who call me from Heaven: by the memory of your untimely death you beg me to scorn the world and its sweet hooks.”
Canzone 280, st. 3–4
Il Canzoniere (c. 1351–1353), To Laura in Death
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