This writer insisted that humanity should strive "to trample beneath us those appetites which spring from earthly impulses" in a letter he wrote after going on a hike with his brother near the town of Malaucene.
This writer insisted that humanity should strive "to trample beneath us those appetites which spring from earthly impulses" in a letter he wrote after going on a hike with his brother near the town of Malaucene. This writer's collections of letters include Seniles and Epistolae familiares, the latter of which includes his "Ascent of Mount Ventoux." The first poem in a collection by this writer opens by addressing "You who hear the sound, in scattered rhymes," and was written for a woman he met in 1327. For 10 points, name this early Italian poet, whose Il Canzoniere includes many poems addressed to his love Laura written in his namesake sonnet form.
This writer insisted that humanity should strive "to trample beneath us those appetites which spring from earthly impulses" in a letter he wrote after going on a hike with his brother near the town of Malaucene.
Petrarch [or Francesco Petrarca; accept Petrarchan sonnet]