He stated that "I ridicule in you nothing at all" in one of his works written for Marcus Tullius Cicero, while the line, "Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown" is the last he wrote for his "Letter to Posterity".  
He stated that "I ridicule in you nothing at all" in one of his works written for Marcus Tullius Cicero, while the line, "Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown" is the last he wrote for his "Letter to Posterity".  He declared that only God and oneself "and his private thoughts" are the only ways to find repose in his essay, De Vita Solitaria, while he left incomplete an epic poem telling the story of (*) Scipio Africanus titled Africa. "I go thinking, and so strong a pity" and "You who hear the sound, in scattered rhymes" are the first lines of poems in his most famous collection.  One of his works formed the basis for parts of Book I of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde; that collection of poems was titled Il Canzoniere.  For 10 points, name this Italian poet of numerous poems dedicated to Laura, who also names a type of sonnet.
He stated that "I ridicule in you nothing at all" in one of his works written for Marcus Tullius Cicero, while the line, "Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown" is the last he wrote for his "Letter to Posterity".  
Petrarch [or Francesco Petrarca]