Following the death of his lover, this man claimed "Lord, who first imprisoned me in this cell, / release me, save me from eternal harm" in a poem which began "Love held me burning, twenty-one years / happy in the fire, and in grief full of hope."
Following the death of his lover, this man claimed "Lord, who first imprisoned me in this cell, / release me, save me from eternal harm" in a poem which began "Love held me burning, twenty-one years / happy in the fire, and in grief full of hope." This man harshly criticized the Avignon Papacy in The Book Without A Name and quoted Virgil's Georgics in a letter addressed to Dionigi di Borgo San Sepolcro written following his ascent of (*) Mont Ventoux. This man wrote an epic poem in hexameter detailing Scipio Africanus' leading of Rome to victory in the Second Punic War entitled Africa. This poet collected 366 different poems addressed to his love interest Laura in the collection Il Canzoniere. For 10 points, name this Italian poet and humanist, the namesake of a type of sonnet divided into an octave and a sestet.
Following the death of his lover, this man claimed "Lord, who first imprisoned me in this cell, / release me, save me from eternal harm" in a poem which began "Love held me burning, twenty-one years / happy in the fire, and in grief full of hope."
Petrarch (or Francesco Petrarca)