How much I envy you, you greedy earth, who get to clasp the… - Petrarch

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How much I envy you, you greedy earth, who get to clasp the one who’s taken from me, and keep me from the air of her sweet face in which I once found peace from all my war! How

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Francesco Petrarca (or Petrarch) (July 20, 1304 – July 19, 1374) was an Italian scholar, poet, and early humanist. Petrarch and Dante are considered the fathers of the Renaissance.

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Alternative Names: Francesco Petrarca • Peetrarque • Petrarque • Francesco Peetrarque • Francesco Petrarch • Francis Petrarch • Petrarca

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Dante Alighieri Rabindranath Tagore Marguerite Yourcenar William Shakespeare Alexander Pushkin

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"Al' iako ja sam stvor sazdan od zemlje, uporna mi čežnja potječe sa zvijezda." VII

Understand me who can, for I understand myself.

Non è sí duro cor che, lagrimando,
pregando, amando, talor non si smova,
né sí freddo voler, che non si scalde.

How much I envy you, you greedy earth, who get to clasp the one who’s taken from me, and keep me from the air of her sweet face in which I once found… - Petrarch

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