“Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.”

— Francesco Petrarca , Il Canzoniere

"Canzone 11 [c. 1327]", as reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1968), p. 163
Il Canzoniere (c. 1351–1353), To Laura in Life

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Italian scholar and poet 1304–1374

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