They include a characterization of the world as "changing and arrogant" and a plea to the stars for the return of the gone day.
In one of them, the speaker asks that the paper he composes upon be blessed, while another describes the fatality of the butterfly. They include a characterization of the world as "changing and arrogant" and a plea to the stars for the return of the gone day. Another reflects that it has been seventeen years since the speaker has "burned with fire." Often published alongside two of its author's letters, The Ascent of Mount Ventoux and The Letter to Posterity, one of them, "If it's not love, then what is that I feel," was adapted for Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer. Originally given the name Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, they were championed by Pietro Bembo and subsequent editors divided them into two sections: poems composed during their primary subject's life and poems composed after her death. Including such poems as, "Oh God! That lovely face, that Gentle Look," and, "Diana never pleased her lover more," its author completed 366 of these poems in all, with 317 of them written in his namesake sonnet style. For 10 points, identify this collection of verse focusing on a tortured poet's love for Laura, a work by Petrarch.
In one of them, the speaker asks that the paper he composes upon be blessed, while another describes the fatality of the butterfly.
Canzoniere[also accept Song Book and accept Rerum vulgarium fragmenta before it is said]