“I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.”

— Francesco Petrarca

Source: Canzoniere: Selected Poems

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Italian scholar and poet 1304–1374

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