For 10 points, name this language in which the first sonnets were written, most famously by Petrarch.
A poem written in this language tells the story of a king who sends out an edict reading "I am I, and you're nothing but shit." A poem addressed to "you, whose look pierced through my heart" was written in this language, which was also used to write the poem "The Sovrans of the Old World." In a poem written in this language, the speaker laments having "become an old tale amongst all these people, so that it often makes me ashamed of myself." That poem's speaker experiences "remorse, and the clearest (*) knowledge of how the world's delight is a brief dream." The speaker hopes "to find pity, and forgiveness for all the modes in which I talk and weep" in a poem written in this language which begins "You who hear the sound, in scattered rhymes," which is the first poem in a collection focusing on the poet's love for Laura. For 10 points, name this language in which the first sonnets were written, most famously by Petrarch.
A poem written in this language tells the story of a king who sends out an edict reading "I am I, and you're nothing but shit."
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