Voi dunque, se cercate aver la mente anzi l'extremo dí queta già mai, seguite i pochi, et non la volgar gente. - Petrarch

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Voi dunque, se cercate aver la mente
anzi l'extremo dí queta già mai,
seguite i pochi, et non la volgar gente.

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About Petrarch

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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Vol schaamte dat ik niet genoeg liet horen
over uw schoonheid, vrouwe, denk ik weer
hoe zij mij zozeer trof, die eerste keer,
dat mij geen ander ooit nog zal bekoren.

Maar u te loven is mij niet beschoren:
te ontoereikend blijkt mijn ganzenveer.
Mijn hersens lijken, als ik het probeer,
verlamd te zijn en in ontzag bevroren.

Vaak ving ik aan te zingen, maar moest zwijgen
omdat mijn krachten mij begaven, want
welk stemgeluid kan tot uw hoogte stijgen?

Vaak wilde ik een lofdicht op u maken,
maar schroom heeft steeds mijn pen, mijn hoofd, mijn hand
gedwongen om die pogingen te staken.

(Ike Cialona)

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I closed the book*, angry with myself that I should still be admiring earthly things who might long ago have learned from even the pagan philosophers that nothing is wonderful but the soul, which, when great itself, finds nothing great outside itself. Then, in truth, I was satisfied that I had seen enough of the mountain; I turned my inward eye upon myself, and from that time not a syllable fell from my lips until we reached the bottom again... [W]e look about us for what is to be found only within... How many times, think you, did I turn back that day, to glance at the summit of the mountain which seemed scarcely a cubit high compared with the range of human contemplation.

* Augustine's Confessions: And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.

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