Le città son nemiche, amici i boschi. - Petrarch

I am possessed by one insatiable passion , which I cannot restrain nor would I if I could ... I cannot get enough books .

If I believed I could free myself, by dying,
from amorous thoughts that bind me to the earth,
I would already have laid these troubled limbs
and their burden in the earth myself:

Virtue ‘gainst fury shall advance the fight, and it to the combat soon shall put to flight, for the Old Roman Valor is not dead! Nor in the Italian’s breasts, extinguish-ed.