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This author compared an old man preparing to see the Veronica icon on pilgrimage to himself, and wrote another poem as a list of contradictory feelings such as "I burn and yet I freeze." This owner of a personal classics library opened one collection by addressing "You who hear the sound of scattered rhymes." This author of the Rime Sparse ("REE-mey SPAR-sey"), also called the Canzoniere, names a poetic form devised earlier than the Spenserian and Shakespearean forms, in which an eight-line octave precedes a six-line sestet. For 10 points, name this Italian poet who dedicated many sonnets to Laura.
This author compared an old man preparing to see the Veronica icon on pilgrimage to himself, and wrote another poem as a list of contradictory feelings such as "I burn and yet I freeze.
Petrarch [or Francesco Petrarca]