A collection by him begins: "You who hear the sound, in scattered rhymes / of those sighs on which I fed my heart".
At the end of one poem, this author addressed the poem itself to say: "Song, if you had as much beauty as you wished, / you could boldly / leave this wood, and go among people". The speaker of another of his poems describes reason and art being drowned by the waves, after declaring "My ship sails on, packed with forgetfulness". He described being wounded by his beloved's (*) eyes on a day when the sun's rays had no color. His popularity in England was spread by the translations of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey and Thomas Wyatt. A collection by him begins: "You who hear the sound, in scattered rhymes / of those sighs on which I fed my heart". For 10 points, name this Italian poet whose Canzoniere features poems addressed to Laura, written in his namesake sonnet form.
At the end of one poem, this author addressed the poem itself to say: "Song, if you had as much beauty as you wished, / you could boldly / leave this wood, and go among people".
Petrarch [or Francesco Petrarca]