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S'io avesse pensato che sí care fossin le voci de' sospir miei in rima, fatte l'avrei, dal sospirar mio prima, in numero più spesse, in stil più rare. Morta colei che mi facea parlare, e che si stava de' pensier miei in cima, non posso, e non ho più sí dolce lima, rime aspre e fosche far soavi e chiare. E certo ogni mio studio in quel tempo era pur di sfogare il doloroso core in qualche modo, non d'acquistar fama. Pianger cercai, non già del pianto onore: or vorrei ben piacer; ma quella altèra, tacito, stanco, dopo sé mi chiama.
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This text was added to the website: 2009-08-26
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If I had thought the voice of my sighs in verse would have been held so dear, I’d have made them, from my first breath, greater in number, purer in style. She who made me write them is dead, she who was the summit of my thoughts, and I’m unable, and no longer have the skill, to make harsh gloomy verses sweet and clear. And in truth my efforts at that time were to ease the saddened heart in that manner, not to acquire fame. I sought to weep, not gain honour from tears: now would like to please: but that noble one calls me, silent and weary, after her.
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