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Più volte già dal bel sembiante umano ò preso ardir co le mie fide scorte d'assalir con parole oneste accorte la mia nemica in atto umile et piano. Fanno poi gli occhi suoi mio penser vano per ch'ogni mia fortuna, ogni mia sorte, mio ben, mio male, et mia vita et mia morte quei che solo il pò far l'à posto in mano. Ond' io non pote' mai formar parola ch' altro che da me stesso fosse intesa, cosi m'à fatto Amor tremante et fioco. Et veggi' or ben che caritate accesa lega la lingua altrui, gli spirti invola: chi pò dir com' egli arde è 'n picciol foco.
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- by Francesco Petrarca (1304 - 1374), no title, appears in Canzoniere (Rerum vulgarium fragmenta) , in 1. Rime In vita di Madonna Laura, no. 170 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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- by Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752 - 1814), "Più volte già dal bel sembiante umano" [text verified 1 time]
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- ENG English (A. S. Kline) , no title, copyright © 2002, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Barbara Miller
Text added to the website: 2007-04-16 00:00:00
Last modified: 2014-06-16 10:02:21
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Word count: 109
Many times now, with my true thought, I’ve dared to assail my enemy, quiet and humble in her actions, her beauty seeming kind, with my honest well-considered speech. Then her eyes rendered my thought vain since all my fortune, all my destiny, my good, my bad, my death and life, had been placed in her hands, by him who alone can do so. So I could not even form true words that anyone but me could understand: Love had made me blaze and tremble so. And I see clearly now that glowing charity ties a man’s tongue, and daunts his spirit: who utters while he burns is in slight fire.
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- a text in Italian (Italiano) by Francesco Petrarca (1304 - 1374), no title, appears in Canzoniere (Rerum vulgarium fragmenta) , in 1. Rime In vita di Madonna Laura, no. 170
Text added to the website: 2015-03-10 00:00:00
Last modified: 2015-03-10 14:25:18
Line count: 14
Word count: 110