I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are … - Petrarch

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I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.

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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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Peace I do not find, and I have no wish to make war; and I fear and hope, and burn and am of ice.

Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.

S'amor non è, che dunque è quel ch'io sento?
Ma s'egli è amor, perdio, che cosa et quale?
Se bona, onde l'effecto aspro mortale?
Se ria, onde sí dolce ogni tormento?

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